1. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  2. The nefarious thing about idolatry is that just about anything can become your idol: career, family, fame, wealth, status, spouse, you name it, any good thing can become a ‘god-thing” with ease. 
  3. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  4. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  5. 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.
  6. If Jesus shows up and you are a sinner, ‘tis more blessed to receive than to give
  7. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  8. It is terribly easy to set up our theology as a buffer against the real coming of the Lord and its consequences.
  9. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  10. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  11. The good news is that with our God there is always more: more than we deserve, dare, ask, or expect, more than we can see, hear, feel, or think.