1. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  2. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  3. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  4. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  5. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  6. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  7. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  8. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  9. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  10. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  11. 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.