1. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  2. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  3. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  4. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  5. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  6. May you believe, in this thin-line world, that this Jesus is for you, not against you.
  7. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  8. The only way to change the current state of worship songwriting and production is to create something different.
  9. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  10. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  11. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  12. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.