1. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  2. Our God is a living God and he listens to our cries for help.
  3. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  4. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  5. We did not say “Goodbye” to our son on the day of his burial. We said, “Luke, we’ll see you soon.”
  6. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  7. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  8. Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.
  9. What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
  10. While so much remains the same week after week, the past years have taught me how much changes. And I kind of like it.
  11. I want the beginning of my funeral to be focused on Jesus, as well as the middle, the end, and every point in between.
  12. There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.