1. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  2. 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.
  3. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  4. 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.
  5. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  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. 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.”
  8. 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.
  9. We are not pursuing dragons; we are the dragons. We are, all of us, Eustace Scrubb.
  10. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  11. 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.