1. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  2. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  3. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  4. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  5. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  6. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  7. A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
  8. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  9. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  10. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  11. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  12. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.