1. 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.
  2. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  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. Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”
  5. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  6. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  7. Jesus has gone ahead of you on the road, and promises to be with you still.
  8. We are not pursuing dragons; we are the dragons. We are, all of us, Eustace Scrubb.
  9. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  10. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  11. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.