1. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  2. We will not become hopeless because the Lord is with us.
  3. While the world is full of horizons and endpoints, for Christians, there is always tomorrow, and there are people in that tomorrow waiting for us as we wait for them.
  4. We ache in eager anticipation as we see Christ in action and as we take in the snapshots of his life, death, and resurrection.
  5. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  6. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  7. Our God is a living God and he listens to our cries for help.
  8. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  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. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  11. On Saturday, July 16, Luke Gabriel Bird died in a hiking accident in Chile. He was a midshipman in the United States Naval Academy. He is our son. Here are some reflections on his life, his faith, and his Lord.