Mark Jerstad's essence returns to us in written form through sermons preached at Augustana College. Topics of faith and fear range from "What Happens After Death?" to "Forgiveness," from "Thinking about Thinking" to "Roadblocks to Faith." Jerstad writes, "There is a strain running through the whole biblical message that comes at us from our future and penetrates our now. This is what we call an eschatological promise, a promise that beyond this life there is something more...We are people of promise. We live in the hope and the promise given to us by God himself through Jesus Christ, that...