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. There is no justification by the works of the law
  4. Any message other than "Christ for you" is not good news.
  5. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  6. How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise
  7. Every Christian should understand what it means to have a Great High Priest
  8. Jesus is always interceding for us
  9. If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
  10. 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.
  11. The existence of aliens can not negate the promise given to us by God courtesy of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  12. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.