1. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  2. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  3. By his first Advent in the flesh, through his second Advent with bread and wine and water and Word, we await his third Advent at the end.
  4. We will not become hopeless because the Lord is with us.
  5. 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.
  6. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  7. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  8. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  9. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.