1. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  2. 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.
  3. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
  4. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  5. 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.
  6. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  7. It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.
  8. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  9. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  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.