1. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  2. God chose Russell Brand, chose to defy his fast-escaping life and drink up all his swift-running sin in the River Thames.
  3. For you who are struggling to navigate grief, to cope with pain, or breathe through anxiety, the gospel announces that there is a person whose heart throbs for you.
  4. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  5. A Christian story untethered from the reality of Christ and his mercy toward sinners becomes a mere fable, while a sermon disconnected from the hearts of its listeners remains a hollow oratory.
  6. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  7. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  8. 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.
  9. Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”
  10. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  11. Patrick's breakthrough came when he began to leverage his knowledge of the native language and customs to build a bridge between Irish lore and the Christian mythos.
  12. 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.