1. What we do much less of, even in Christian circles, is recognize just how pervasive sin is, such that it has thoroughly corrupted us.
  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. Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
  4. Elsewhere makes promises that can’t be kept, but God’s promises are secure, reliable, and certain.
  5. It's easy to have courage when things go well.
  6. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  7. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  8. 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.
  9. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  10. Regardless of background or beliefs, every American I talk to seems on edge, as if the sky were about to fall. But the sky is not falling.
  11. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  12. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.