1. Any message other than "Christ for you" is not good news.
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  3. Jesus is always interceding for us
  4. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  5. The legacy of Jonah is troubled with most remembering him not for what he said but for what he did: run away.
  6. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  7. 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.
  8. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
  9. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  10. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
  11. This is an excerpt from “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).