1. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  2. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  3. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  4. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  5. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  6. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  7. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
  8. We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
  9. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  10. It seems to me that our greatest task is not that of seeking skills and methods whereby we can inject power into the gospel, but simply to beware lest we obscure the power that the gospel is