1. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  2. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  3. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  4. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  5. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  6. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.
  7. In the Reformation, as in the tabernacle, God gave skill, artistry, and craftsmanship to put his Word in images so that through art, his Word would be revealed.
  8. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  9. Through Martin Luther, God would unleash a far greater storm than the one which overwhelmed Luther on July 2, 1505.
  10. God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.
  11. It is good to remember that this true story, is also beautiful.
  12. When we read a good story, we sojourn with the characters and authors upon the trail of longing. Such is the pilgrim’s path.