1. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  2. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  3. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  4. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  5. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  6. 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.
  7. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  8. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  9. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  10. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  11. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  12. 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.