1. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  3. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  4. 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.
  5. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  6. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  7. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  8. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  9. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  10. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  11. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  12. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.