1. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  2. The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos
  3. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  4. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  5. The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.
  6. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  7. Our Judge (the one who can condemn us) has become our Advocate (the one who doesn’t condemn us) because he is also our Substitute (the one who takes our condemnation).
  8. Sin, death, and Satan may have had more than a puncher's chance to beat us, but when God stepped into the ring, they should have admitted defeat and thrown in the towel.
  9. The preacher of this text should follow the logic of the text, the divinely inspired genius of Saint Paul, and get out of the way.
  10. My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
  11. We need to remember that we belong to God by Grace Alone. It’s not by our best works. Not by the sweat of our brow, it’s not even by our best attempts to repent.
  12. There is not a soul who crosses the threshold of the sanctuary who is excluded from the message of the gospel of forgiveness.
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