1. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  2. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  3. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  4. When you see the year ending, thank the Lord, because he had led you into this cycle of years.
  5. One word from one God says it all to our tired hearts.
  6. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  7. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  8. May you believe, in this thin-line world, that this Jesus is for you, not against you.
  9. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  10. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  11. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  12. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.