The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.

Legalism invites you to look and observe and see what Christ wants from you, to follow his example, and to do what Jesus would do. The gospel proclaims Jesus as your Savior and Mediator and therefore shus your eyes and opens your ears to the Word of God.

He was exiled from his Father for a time so we would never have to be.

One day, either through the firestorms of life or the decay of time, our earthly love will end up in ashes.

We’ll find that the driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something

At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.

This is what drove Rod’s theology—that the good news—that Jesus died for sins and rose for the justification of the sinner—is for you and for all people.

The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.

Anderson encourages us to meditate upon the ways that Christ truly is the end of our exploring.

 What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?