1. Epiphany—is for the Gentiles, those who were once not God’s people, but who now, by the grace of God in Christ have become the people of God
  2. The needs of the people remain the same, but now the people are you and me. We still sin, and that sin causes so many challenges in our lives.
  3. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  4. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  5. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  6. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  7. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  8. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
  9. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  10. 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.
  11. The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.
  12. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.