1. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  2. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  3. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  4. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  5. 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.
  6. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
  7. It makes perfect sense that the day honoring Jesus' birth would be observed in a decidedly less than refined manner.
  8. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.
  9. To trust in the Lord, the Messiah, the Deliverer, is our salvation and our only hope. Yet he does not trust us to have this “trust” on our own or of our own will.
  10. Psalm 8 is a trailer for the entire biblical movie, and the entire biblical movie centers on Christ.
  11. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.
  12. Take courage, you who were lost: Jesus comes to seek and save that which is lost. Ye sick, return to health: Christ comes to heal the contrite of heart with the balm of his mercy. Rejoice, all you who desire great things: the Son of God comes down to you that he may make you the co-heirs of his kingdom.