1. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  2. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  3. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  4. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  5. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  6. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  7. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  8. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  9. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  10. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  11. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  12. 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.