1. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  2. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  3. What is it, though, that makes bedtime so fraught with anxiety?
  4. The Bible is a book for the desperate. That is its target audience. Recognizing our desperation readies us to hear the consolation that only God’s Word can offer.
  5. Jesus’s followers aren’t ostriches who bury their heads in the sand. That’s not helpful or hopeful for anyone. Resting from life’s trials and troubles comes in the remembrance of the One who is with you in the middle of all of them.
  6. When we are invited to cast all our cares on God's shoulders, he means all of them — every single one of them.
  7. Whatever theoretical or conceptual ideas to which we surrender in despair, the Christian faith offers something wholly different. It offers a person.
  8. Growth and maturity in the Spirit doesn’t look like we think it does. That’s because it’s backward.
  9. Among the things that perturb me about modern Christianity is our residual clinging to a sort of “Christian-karma.”
  10. One of the things you get used to if you talk about this thing called “grace” often enough, is sooner or later you’ll be looked down on by your peers.