1. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  2. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  3. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  4. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  5. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  6. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  10. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  11. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.