1. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  2. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  3. To trust in the Lord, the Messiah, the Deliverer, is our salvation and our only hope. Yet he does not trust us to have this “trust” on our own or of our own will.
  4. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  5. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  6. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
  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. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  9. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  10. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  11. To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.