Gospel (5)
  1. The crucified and risen Christ comes to renew, restore, and build up.
  2. As Luther said, “Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf of spring.”
  3. “Rembrandt goes so deep into the mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.”
  4. Ultimately the Christian life isn't about progress, it's about promise--the Pilgrim's Promise.
  5. It’s a delivery of historical facts that tells us who Jesus is and what he has done for us through his dying on the cross and his rising from the grave.