1. Nothing moves or drives Paul more than preaching about “Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  5. I can guarantee you that when Paul was overtaken by the Spirit and inspired to write these words, he did not have in mind your local school's boys' basketball tournament.
  6. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  7. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  8. A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
  9. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  10. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  11. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  12. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.