1. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  2. 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.
  3. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  4. The lesson of Malachi reveals God’s love for his people. When the people ask for proof of God’s love, he reminds them of their election.
  5. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  6. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  7. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  8. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  9. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  10. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.