1. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  2. A Christian story untethered from the reality of Christ and his mercy toward sinners becomes a mere fable, while a sermon disconnected from the hearts of its listeners remains a hollow oratory.
  3. Eucatastrophe is the coming untrue of all sin, evil, and death. And where that starts is the empty tomb of the risen Jesus.
  4. When Jesus appeared again to his disciples on that first Easter evening and again a week later with Thomas and the Emmaus disciples, what did Jesus show them? His hands.
  5. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  6. Jesus has gone ahead of you on the road, and promises to be with you still.
  7. Regardless of background or beliefs, every American I talk to seems on edge, as if the sky were about to fall. But the sky is not falling.
  8. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  9. In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
  10. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  11. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  12. We still think we can sort own own problems with more money, more education, more resources, more techniques, more, more, more.