1. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  2. The nefarious thing about idolatry is that just about anything can become your idol: career, family, fame, wealth, status, spouse, you name it, any good thing can become a ‘god-thing” with ease. 
  3. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  4. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.
  5. Rejoice with Mary as she would rejoice with you. Be blessed, like her, with humility from God, so that you may serve joyfully and willingly wherever and in whatever role God has placed you.
  6. If Jesus shows up and you are a sinner, ‘tis more blessed to receive than to give
  7. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  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. It is terribly easy to set up our theology as a buffer against the real coming of the Lord and its consequences.
  10. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  11. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.