1. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  2. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  3. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  4. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  5. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  6. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  7. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  8. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  9. Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.
  10. False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.