1. The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.
  2. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  3. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  4. 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.
  5. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  6. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  7. Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
  8. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  9. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  10. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.