1. 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.
  2. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.
  3. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  4. We assert, we herald, the truth about God becoming King of the world in and through Jesus of Nazareth alone. It is our public announcement.
  5. 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.
  6. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  7. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  8. Stoicism’s opening premise fails to understand that, from its conception, the heart is a thorny bramble.
  9. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
  10. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  11. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  12. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.