1. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  2. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  3. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  4. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  5. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
  6. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  7. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  8. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.