1. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  2. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  3. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  4. The church is called to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. Where is that message found? In every blade of grass, on every page of Scripture.
  5. We are not pursuing dragons; we are the dragons. We are, all of us, Eustace Scrubb.
  6. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  7. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  8. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  9. What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
  10. I didn’t see Christmas as a gift given to me to enjoy, I saw Christmas as a long list of expectations I needed to hold up to love those around me.
  11. Can you imagine Christmas from creation’s point of view?
  12. Luke shows us that when we try to fit God into our life movie, the plot is all wrong; and not just wrong but trivial.