1. While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
  2. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  3. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  4. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
  5. God's faithfulness is constant and consistent. It knows no season. His love for us doesn't fade with the summer sun.
  6. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  7. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  8. I can guarantee you that when Paul was overtaken by the Spirit and inspired to write these words, he did not have in mind your local school's boys' basketball tournament.
  9. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  10. 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.
  11. You’re not new because of what you do. You’re new and so you do new things, even in spite of yourself, because of your sinful nature.
  12. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.