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. When Jesus appeared again to his disciples on that first Easter evening and again a week later with Thomas and the Emmaus disciples, what did Jesus show them? His hands.
  4. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  5. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  6. 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.”
  7. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  8. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  9. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  10. 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.
  11. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  12. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.