1. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  2. 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.
  3. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  4. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  5. 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.
  6. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  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. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.