1. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  2. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  3. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  4. The good news of the Gospel is Jesus has come, and Jesus will come again.
  5. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.
  6. Psalm 8 is a trailer for the entire biblical movie, and the entire biblical movie centers on Christ.
  7. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  8. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  9. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  10. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.