1. How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?
  2. God knows that when we face insurmountable odds in our moments of weakness, we are more likely to turn to him in trust and reliance.
  3. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  4. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
  5. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  6. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  7. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  8. Jesus’s story in Luke 16 draws definitive attention to whom God helps — namely, God always comes close in order to help those who cannot help themselves.
  9. It is of the utmost importance that pastors teach their congregation that through faith in Jesus Christ, they are fortified against the machinations of the adversary.
  10. Christ shows up in the middle of our storms and our nightmares. That’s where he sets up shop.
  11. Is salvation by the law or not? Moses or Jesus? Indeed, we find a fundamental parting of the ways put forward here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
  12. 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.