1. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  2. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  3. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  4. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  5. Attempting to escape the errors of medieval Catholic thinking, Agricola ended up making the same mistake of conflating law and gospel.
  6. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  7. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
  8. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  9. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  10. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  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.