1. Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
  2. If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
  3. There is someone outside of I, someone outside of you, that our faith and hope is in.
  4. We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
  5. God's Son comes to deal with the infestation of sin, but in an unforeseen twist of grace, he’s the only one who goes under the knife.
  6. I wanted the devotions of this book to be a source of strength for everyone who has waited all night to see the sun come up again.
  7. Nothing stands against you. Only Christ stands now, and he is for you, more for you than you could ever know, for you like nothing else that has ever loved you.
  8. If you sit where Joseph sits, then you also face the choice that Joseph faced. Do you respond with vengeance?
  9. The God who abundantly restores is still in the business of total restoration, even today. Even now the God of heaven restores dead sinners to life.
  10. Is the "still small voice" of God a murmuring in your heart, a whisper of conscience, the Universe whispering to you? When we explore 1 Kings 19, that "voice" turns out to be very much like the Messenger and Word of the Lord.
  11. Every part of Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene in John 20 was incredibly intentional and personal for God to systematically redeem what was lost.
  12. What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.