1. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  2. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  3. Jesus has gone ahead of you on the road, and promises to be with you still.
  4. We are not pursuing dragons; we are the dragons. We are, all of us, Eustace Scrubb.
  5. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  6. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  7. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  8. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  9. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  10. Jesus will lead us through the deep waters onto the dry land of that celestial shore, where he will wipe away every tear from our eyes.
  11. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.