Dr. Michael Zeigler says forgiveness changes the way we experience real life, as God’s forgiving love cancels the continuous playback of our regrets.

Because of Nicodemus’ questions, we have a better understanding of what is one of the most beloved teachings of Jesus. For us who are overly-familiar with this passage, these questions do us a great service to help us pay closer attention to the path of reasoning that came to the most consoling of conclusions connecting God’s love and Jesus’ death.

How Jesus’ commission to make disciples from all nations is at work in Africa. Part two of this interview with Rev Dr Carlos Walter Winterle, rector of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in South Africa and President-Emeritus of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil.