1. In Genesis 1-2, the Lord reveals—or, at a bare minimum, starts dropping some big hints—that he will be quite comfortable becoming a human being himself someday.
  2. Thanksgiving utters a confession of dependence, an acknowledgement of the gift of something not earned or deserved.
  3. The youths that mock Elisha are representative of Israel’s collective contempt and disregard for all things relating to their One True God.
  4. Our experience with good fathers – even when they are not our own – can point us to God the Father.
  5. One could reason that God might, at least, give the church a little worldly power.
  6. Wilson reminds his reader over and over again that, in his love, God accepts sinners as they are so that we may be delivered from the self-acceptance, self-worship, and self-justification of our selfish definitions of love.
  7. Christ has taken our failures and defeats and exchanges that yoke for his own.
  8. The Son of God is still God the Son in the Incarnation.
  9. Bulls, lions, dogs. Why all these metaphors from the animal kingdom to describe humanity as it encircles the crucified Savior? Because the man on the cross, God incarnate, is there for all creation, not just humanity.
  10. God and Jeremiah may have been looking at the same person, but they were seeing very different things.
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