1. To trust in the Lord, the Messiah, the Deliverer, is our salvation and our only hope. Yet he does not trust us to have this “trust” on our own or of our own will.
  2. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.
  3. The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.
  4. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  5. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  6. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  7. Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
  8. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  9. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.