1. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  2. The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.
  3. 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.”
  4. For you who are struggling to navigate grief, to cope with pain, or breathe through anxiety, the gospel announces that there is a person whose heart throbs for you.
  5. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  6. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  7. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.”
  10. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  11. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  12. 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.