1. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  2. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  3. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
  4. It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.
  5. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  6. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  7. 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.
  8. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  9. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  10. A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
  11. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  12. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.