1. The legacy of Jonah is troubled with most remembering him not for what he said but for what he did: run away.
  2. Attempting to escape the errors of medieval Catholic thinking, Agricola ended up making the same mistake of conflating law and gospel.
  3. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  4. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  5. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  6. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
  7. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  8. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  9. Is salvation by the law or not? Moses or Jesus? Indeed, we find a fundamental parting of the ways put forward here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
  10. This is an excerpt from “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  11. The gospel tells me that the revelation of weakness in myself, my husband, and my son is the occasion for the revelation of God’s strength.