1. How can we be sure that we are getting a “solid spiritual diet” and not a “milky” one?
  2. 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.
  3. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  4. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  5. 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.
  6. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  7. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  8. The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.
  9. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  10. It all starts with God; and it all ends with God. He is the alpha and omega of giving and generosity.
  11. You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
  12. 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.