1. 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.
  2. 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.
  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. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  5. Jesus continues to do the same for me and for you as he did for his disciples. He still shows up for us. He still speaks his peace to us.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.”
  8. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  9. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  10. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  11. Your champion steps forward.