1. The entrance of children into the world reminds our world of the hope of redemption in Genesis 3:15.
  2. The goal of language in the mouth of a Christian isn’t to hold power for ourselves but to give it.
  3. Rachel was the beloved wife, to be sure, but she was not the maternal link between Eve and Mary. That blessed position belonged to Leah.
  4. Jesus’s freedom is different. It isn’t meant to indicate that the moorings which tether men and women to what is true, beautiful, and holy are unfastened, liberating them to do anything they please.
  5. The upright, in whom the law has exercised its work, when they feel their sickness and weakness, say: God will help me; I trust in him; I build upon him; he is my rock and hope.
  6. The grass withered for them too, but they held on to God’s Word. They knew that was eternal, so they lived in it. They lived in his forgiveness.
  7. It turns out that when Elijah battled depression, God sent someone to just be with him. To comfort him.
  8. Faith is a living, bold trust in God’s grace, so certain of God’s favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
  9. God’s love is axiomatic; it just is. It’s a truism without a logical explanation.
  10. We can not give our Heavenly Father anything that will make him love us more or less. He gives and we receive.
  11. Take away the communal aspect, take away the communal gathering around Christ’s body and blood, and the Christian will begin to suffer a malnutrition of faith.
  12. The story of Juneteenth is one of living between proclamation and emancipation, and the story of the Christian faith is one of living in that same tension.