1. The lack of history surrounding Psalm 130 allows it to endure as universally appealing even for our seasons of hopelessness and despair when we’re in “the depths.”
  2. 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.
  3. C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
  4. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  5. The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos
  6. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  7. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  8. While midnight might seem long, the mercy of God assures us that the morning will come.
  9. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  10. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  11. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.