1. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  2. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  3. The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos
  4. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  5. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  6. 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.
  7. If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
  8. The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
  9. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  10. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  11. 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.