1. We can do nothing to warrant entry into the kingdom of God nor are we getting in if we think a seat at God’s table is something to which we are entitled.
  2. Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.
  3. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  4. God chose Russell Brand, chose to defy his fast-escaping life and drink up all his swift-running sin in the River Thames.
  5. 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.
  6. Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
  7. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  8. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  9. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  10. 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.
  11. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  12. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.