1. When properly distinguishing law and gospel in the Word of God, it is important to use the God-given gift and abilities of the imagination as your ears.
  2. Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
  3. God's faithfulness is constant and consistent. It knows no season. His love for us doesn't fade with the summer sun.
  4. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  5. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  6. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  7. Just like for Mordecai and Esther, our lives are also sustained by the hand of God in the ordinary, in events begging to be seen as the work of Christ in our lives.
  8. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  9. We number our days not according to our timeframe but according to God’s work and his rhythms.
  10. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  11. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
  12. This hymn is not for people who feel strong, but those who are weak.