1. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  2. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  3. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  4. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  5. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  6. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  7. Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
  8. Jesus remakes us, rebuilds us, and resurrects us so the demons that hide in the cracks cannot get ahold of us, the devil cannot break us, and hell will never know us.
  9. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.