1. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  2. All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.
  3. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
  4. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  5. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  6. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  7. It all starts with God; and it all ends with God. He is the alpha and omega of giving and generosity.
  8. We ache in eager anticipation as we see Christ in action and as we take in the snapshots of his life, death, and resurrection.
  9. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  10. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.