1. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  2. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  3. His successes were not the result of his brilliance, might, and ability as an apostle. They were the result of the all-sufficient grace of God.
  4. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  5. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  6. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  7. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  8. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  9. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  10. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  11. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  12. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!