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. The legacy of Jonah is troubled with most remembering him not for what he said but for what he did: run away.
  3. 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.
  4. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  5. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  6. 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.
  7. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
  8. 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.
  9. This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Christ shows up in the middle of our storms and our nightmares. That’s where he sets up shop.