1. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  2. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  3. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  4. Grace comes for every foolish, self-absorbed sinner, for every “Nabal,” and announces that there is one who has already taken it upon himself to shoulder all of our wrongdoing, paying the price for it through the sacrifice of himself.
  5. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  6. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  7. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  8. Forty days after giving birth, Mary, along with her husband Joseph, presented their firstborn Son at the temple and "bought" him back with a sacrifice of two small birds. This is known as the "Presentation of Our Lord."
  9. There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.
  10. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the fourth installment of that series.
  11. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the first installment of that series.
  12. Our God is the one who brings back the exile, who restores the outcast, he is the one who devises means to do so.
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