1. 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.”
  2. It's easy to have courage when things go well.
  3. 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.
  4. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  5. 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.
  6. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.”
  9. This day and its meaning provided the opportunity for an anonymous author to write a poem for Sheer Thursday about Judas' betrayal of Jesus.
  10. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  11. 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.
  12. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.