1. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  2. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  3. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  4. Predestination, Jim knew, is no longer a frightening doctrine of mystery when you understand that God makes his choice about you in the simple word of God, given from one sinner to another.
  5. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  6. The gospel's message is the scandalous announcement that Yahweh has stooped to our frame, to where we are.
  7. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  8. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  9. 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."
  10. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  11. Toy Story is indeed a Christmas story.
  12. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.