1. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  2. Delwyn Campbell wrestles with a situation that demands love and justice
  3. The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos
  4. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  5. A pastor is sent to proclaim the unconditional grace of God, reminding us again and again that it is our Heavenly Father who reaches out to us in love through his Christ-won forgiveness, and not the other way around.
  6. Grace comes for every foolish, self-absorbed sinner, for every “Nabal,” and announces that there is one who has already taken it upon himself to shoulder all of our wrongdoing, paying the price for it through the sacrifice of himself.
  7. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  8. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  9. 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.
  10. God is the end of living, the destination, the point of it all.
  11. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  12. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.