1. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
  2. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
  3. While midnight might seem long, the mercy of God assures us that the morning will come.
  4. In the tumultuous sea of information, opinions, and ideologies that break over us each day, we hold fast to the anchor of our faith—Jesus, the true prophet.
  5. The only place to begin a discussion of human/creaturely identity is with our relationship to the God whose breath filled dust, brought us to life, sustains us and gives us a hopeful future.
  6. 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.
  7. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  8. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  9. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  10. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  11. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  12. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.