1. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  2. God never delights in seeing his children struggle or suffer. But God does desire that we trust him no matter what the circumstances might look like.
  3. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  4. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  5. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  6. Jesus is always interceding for us
  7. 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.
  8. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  9. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  10. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  11. 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.