1. Toy Story is indeed a Christmas story.
  2. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  3. Rejoice with Mary as she would rejoice with you. Be blessed, like her, with humility from God, so that you may serve joyfully and willingly wherever and in whatever role God has placed you.
  4. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  5. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  6. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  7. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  8. You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
  9. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  10. You’re not new because of what you do. You’re new and so you do new things, even in spite of yourself, because of your sinful nature.
  11. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  12. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.