1. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  2. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  3. It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.
  4. 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.
  5. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  6. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  7. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  8. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  9. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  10. All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.
  11. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
  12. We assert, we herald, the truth about God becoming King of the world in and through Jesus of Nazareth alone. It is our public announcement.