1. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  2. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  3. Just like for Mordecai and Esther, our lives are also sustained by the hand of God in the ordinary, in events begging to be seen as the work of Christ in our lives.
  4. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  5. God is the end of living, the destination, the point of it all.
  6. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  7. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  8. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
  9. This hymn is not for people who feel strong, but those who are weak.
  10. May you believe, in this thin-line world, that this Jesus is for you, not against you.
  11. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.