1. Grace comes for every foolish, self-absorbed sinner, for every “Nabal,” and announces that there is one who has already taken it upon himself to shoulder all of our wrongdoing, paying the price for it through the sacrifice of himself.
  2. The Bible not only calls us to remember God’s past acts of deliverance; it also invites us to recognize that God in Christ is still in the business of delivering sinners from bondage.
  3. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  4. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  5. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  6. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  10. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  11. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  12. 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.