1. In Israel today, it's still possible to witness the same scene the disciples saw 2000 years ago when the Bedouin shepherds bring their flocks home from various pastures at the end of the day.
  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. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  5. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  6. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  7. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  8. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  9. Jesus will lead us through the deep waters onto the dry land of that celestial shore, where he will wipe away every tear from our eyes.
  10. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  11. How’s your ticker?