1. What is it, though, that makes bedtime so fraught with anxiety?
  2. Death may speak, and its voice may sound authoritative and decisive. Nonetheless, it is a mere whimper from the grave.
  3. For those of us who recognize the disciples’ despair in ourselves, Jesus comes with the same word: “Relax, it’s me. Peace be with you.”
  4. It’s God’s love that sets us free to love in the first place.
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  7. Jesus offers to the anxious soul the one thing it ironically wants: certainty of the good.
  8. Though envy whispers to us that peace can only be found by “keeping up,” Jesus whispers to us a better word: “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.”
  9. Our ears are opened by the Spirit through the word. Then, faith in Christ is present in us.
  10. It’s not the disciples’ faith that invented the resurrection but the resurrection that gave birth to the disciples’ faith.
  11. The words “sanctify” and “sanctification” have deep roots in the Old Testament. There, holiness is about nearness to the presence of God. He is the holy-maker. Sanctification is his gift. The Old Testament helps us to avoid the common misunderstanding today that sanctification is all about our life of good works.