1. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  2. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  3. Jesus will lead us through the deep waters onto the dry land of that celestial shore, where he will wipe away every tear from our eyes.
  4. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  5. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  6. What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
  7. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  8. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  9. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  10. Theology and history go hand in hand in the real person of Jesus Christ, making the truth of the Gospels profoundly human and powerfully meaningful.
  11. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  12. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.