1. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  2. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  3. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  4. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  5. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  6. The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
  7. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  8. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  9. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  10. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  11. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  12. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.