1. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  2. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  3. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  4. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  5. The legacy of Jonah is troubled with most remembering him not for what he said but for what he did: run away.
  6. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  7. Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.
  8. Dyson demonstrated a pious persistence with Lewis, something we can emulate in our own friendships and conversations.
  9. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  10. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  11. Lord, remember us to remind us, that we may know all good things come from you.