1. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  2. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  3. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  4. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  5. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  6. The answer to our messages is God's "yes," Jesus, who sends his preachers to proclaim that there's no place for us now other than in the grip of our God and Savior.
  7. When we pray to Jesus, we pray to the King's right hand. We know one who has the Father's ear, respect and trust. And the one who intercedes for us is still one of us, with nail-pierced hands.
  8. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  9. 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.
  10. Our God is a living God and he listens to our cries for help.
  11. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.