1. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  2. 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.
  3. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  4. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  5. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  6. 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.
  7. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  8. The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.
  9. If Jesus shows up and you are a sinner, ‘tis more blessed to receive than to give
  10. It is terribly easy to set up our theology as a buffer against the real coming of the Lord and its consequences.
  11. Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.