1. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  2. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  3. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  4. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  5. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  6. The good news of the Gospel is Jesus has come, and Jesus will come again.
  7. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  8. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  9. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  10. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  11. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.