1. All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.
  2. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
  3. We assert, we herald, the truth about God becoming King of the world in and through Jesus of Nazareth alone. It is our public announcement.
  4. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  5. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  6. Psalm 98, with its promise of a sea and mountains singing, takes these imposing natural features and turns them into a praise choir.
  7. By his first Advent in the flesh, through his second Advent with bread and wine and water and Word, we await his third Advent at the end.
  8. We will not become hopeless because the Lord is with us.
  9. It is terribly easy to set up our theology as a buffer against the real coming of the Lord and its consequences.
  10. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.