1. This is an excerpt from Chad Bird’s book, Your God is Too Glorious, 2nd Edition
  2. We do not choose our struggles, but there is One who has chosen to always be with us.
  3. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  4. Of all the Inklings, Williams was certainly the most enigmatic. His mind and body were always moving.
  5. If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
  6. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  7. Lord, remember us to remind us, that we may know all good things come from you.
  8. This week, we’ll take a closer look at what it means to have a God who remembers us. Today, 1517 Scholar in Residence Chad Bird first introduces the Old Testament meaning behind the word and the Hebrew way of remembering.
  9. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  10. 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.
  11. Jesus weeps because his heart pulses with furious rage and fierce love.