1. Elsewhere makes promises that can’t be kept, but God’s promises are secure, reliable, and certain.
  2. The lack of history surrounding Psalm 130 allows it to endure as universally appealing even for our seasons of hopelessness and despair when we’re in “the depths.”
  3. It's easy to have courage when things go well.
  4. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  5. In Israel today, it's still possible to witness the same scene the disciples saw 2000 years ago when the Bedouin shepherds bring their flocks home from various pastures at the end of the day.
  6. 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.
  7. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  8. Regardless of background or beliefs, every American I talk to seems on edge, as if the sky were about to fall. But the sky is not falling.
  9. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  10. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  11. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.