1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  4. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  5. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  6. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  7. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  8. 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.
  9. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
  10. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  11. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  12. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.