1. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  2. 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.
  3. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  4. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.”
  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.