There was a day when kings led their armies into battle themselves, their whole credibility resting on it. Consider Hebrews 2 and the confession’s teaching on Christ’s full humanity, the King who didn’t just command the battle but entered it himself.

And the greatest of these is love, as 1 Corinthians 13’s famous conclusion puts it. Even the Beatles agreed love is all you need, but what actually is it? Paul’s great chapter on love shows why nothing else, not even the most spectacular gifts, matters without it.

God becoming man: it’s possible to say those words so often that we stop being amazed by them. Consider the confession’s careful statement of the incarnation, a truth we sing about far more easily than we understand.

Plenty of people say they follow and love Jesus, but which Jesus do they actually mean? Consider the confession’s affirmation of Christ’s full deity, the non-negotiable foundation for any Jesus worth following.

Three voices shape how we see ourselves: what we say about ourselves, what others say about us, and what God says about us. Consider Paul’s picture of the body of Christ to see why every member matters, whichever voice we’re tempted to listen to most.

What’s humanity’s biggest problem? Run through the usual suspects, hunger, war, inequality, corruption, before naming the real one underneath them all: sin. This opens the confession’s teaching on Christ’s threefold office as prophet, priest, and king as God’s answer to that deeper problem.

Sinful humanity’s default is to divide, from nations down to families, left versus right, one faction against another. Consider Paul’s teaching on baptism in the Spirit as the one thing that actually unites believers across every other divide.

This comes to one of the greatest chapters in the whole confession: Christ the Mediator. Consider the covenant of redemption, the eternal agreement within the Godhead to save a people through the Son.

This comes to the first of Paul’s lists of spiritual gifts, diving into the specifics of gifts the Corinthians were apparently already familiar with. Consider the variety Paul names, and what unites such a strange range of gifts.

We’re all in love with love: it’s no accident the Bible opens with a wedding and closes with one too. Consider Psalm 45’s royal wedding song as a picture of Christ and his bride, the church.