1. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
  2. God's faithfulness is constant and consistent. It knows no season. His love for us doesn't fade with the summer sun.
  3. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  4. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  5. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  6. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  7. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  8. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  9. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  10. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  11. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  12. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.