1. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  2. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  3. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  4. 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.
  5. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  6. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  7. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  8. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
  9. We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
  10. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  11. It seems to me that our greatest task is not that of seeking skills and methods whereby we can inject power into the gospel, but simply to beware lest we obscure the power that the gospel is