1. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  2. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  3. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  4. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  5. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  6. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  7. While the world is full of horizons and endpoints, for Christians, there is always tomorrow, and there are people in that tomorrow waiting for us as we wait for them.
  8. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  9. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
  10. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  11. 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.
  12. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.