1. 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.”
  2. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  3. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  4. Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
  5. If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
  6. Lord, remember us to remind us, that we may know all good things come from you.
  7. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  8. God’s published will offers us anchorage, the anchorage of Jesus Christ, in the midst of chaos, reminding us that there is a greater purpose to our lives than the pursuit of worldly success or fleeting pleasures.
  9. The existence of aliens can not negate the promise given to us by God courtesy of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  10. If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
  11. Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.