1. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  2. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  3. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  4. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  5. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  6. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  7. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  8. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  9. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  10. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  11. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.