1. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  2. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  3. Even at Lewis’ graveside, Havard was a faithful friend, and a friend full of faith in Christ, confessing his hope in the resurrection.
  4. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  5. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  6. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  10. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  11. 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.
  12. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!