1. 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.
  2. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  3. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  4. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  5. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  6. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  7. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  8. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  9. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  10. 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.
  11. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  12. The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.