1. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  2. Jesus continues to do the same for me and for you as he did for his disciples. He still shows up for us. He still speaks his peace to us.
  3. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  4. This day and its meaning provided the opportunity for an anonymous author to write a poem for Sheer Thursday about Judas' betrayal of Jesus.
  5. St. Patrick was great but only because he was a slave to Christ.
  6. Patrick's breakthrough came when he began to leverage his knowledge of the native language and customs to build a bridge between Irish lore and the Christian mythos.
  7. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  8. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  9. Jesus has gone ahead of you on the road, and promises to be with you still.
  10. The church is called to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. Where is that message found? In every blade of grass, on every page of Scripture.
  11. We are not pursuing dragons; we are the dragons. We are, all of us, Eustace Scrubb.
  12. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.