1. God gives us the power and authority to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to burdened sinners who entrust us with their pain, guilt, and defeat.
  2. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  3. 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."
  4. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  5. Psalm 98, with its promise of a sea and mountains singing, takes these imposing natural features and turns them into a praise choir.
  6. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  7. When the church is a political actor, the gospel doesn’t have the final word.
  8. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  9. 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.
  10. You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
  11. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  12. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.