1. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  2. In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
  3. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  4. Grace comes for every foolish, self-absorbed sinner, for every “Nabal,” and announces that there is one who has already taken it upon himself to shoulder all of our wrongdoing, paying the price for it through the sacrifice of himself.
  5. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  6. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  7. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  8. Forty days after giving birth, Mary, along with her husband Joseph, presented their firstborn Son at the temple and "bought" him back with a sacrifice of two small birds. This is known as the "Presentation of Our Lord."
  9. Godly, upright in heart, righteous. Sinful, sorrowful, wasting away.
  10. Craig and Troy love Psalm 51 because of the truth it speaks: we are sinful, and God is gracious. When God cleanses, we are indeed made clean.
  11. Even from the moment of the Fall, God has never left us without His gracious promise of redemption. God moves first to cover us.
  12. We might think of the poetry of the Psalms as a dance between creation and redemption.
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