1. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  2. 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.
  3. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  4. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  5. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  6. 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.
  7. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  8. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  9. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  10. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  11. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  12. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.