1. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  2. 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.
  3. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
  4. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  5. 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.
  6. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  7. The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
  8. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  9. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  10. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  11. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  12. 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.