1. 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.
  2. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  3. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.”
  6. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  7. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  8. 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.
  9. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  10. We are the fruit that grows from the branch, which extends from the trunk of the tree, which is rooted in the soil that it grows out of, which is all Christ.
  11. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  12. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.