1. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  2. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  3. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  4. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  5. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  6. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  7. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
  8. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  9. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  10. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  11. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
  12. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.