The books I read in 2022.

God will hear us now because, on the cross, Jesus wasn’t heard. We will never be forsaken because on the cross, he was.

Amid the darkness all around, the spotlight is on the cross. There, our savior hangs, mangled and marred. It’s messy, and it’s bloody because it must be. This is the only way to forgiveness.

We all have earthly masters. Some of them are good bosses. Some are not. But we all have a higher master who is good and does good, and he is who ultimately matters.

The Christian gospel speaks to all people in every situation all the time. You cannot get any socially lower than a slave. But Jesus doesn’t ignore the lowly. He speaks directly to them.

A quote from C.S. Lewis on praise.

We give thanks to God for all things because he is good and because his love will never end.

When we gather, let’s pray to the big God for this big world with its big needs.

One of my favorite phrases is “the finished work of Christ.” When Jesus died on the cross, he did not say, “My part is done, now your turn.”