1. When the church is a political actor, the gospel doesn’t have the final word.
  2. While the world is full of horizons and endpoints, for Christians, there is always tomorrow, and there are people in that tomorrow waiting for us as we wait for them.
  3. We ache in eager anticipation as we see Christ in action and as we take in the snapshots of his life, death, and resurrection.
  4. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  5. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  6. You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
  7. Our God is a living God and he listens to our cries for help.
  8. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  9. The good news is that with our God there is always more: more than we deserve, dare, ask, or expect, more than we can see, hear, feel, or think.
  10. Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.
  11. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.