7. The Lord is the creator and sustainer of ALL…I am HIS creation. May I never lose sight of my rightful place. The Lord is sovereign in all the universe. I am truly blessed to have a loving, merciful, and forgiving God.

9. I have seen God’s hand on me through the many twists and turns my life could have taken “there but for the grace of God.” I worked for nearly nine years for a Lutheran parish; this was a special time allowed for me to journey into a personal relationship with the Lord. Although blessed to be born and raised in a Christian family and with a foundation of faith, a new educational process began with my being hired by the parish. My hire served as a catalyst for beginning a “personal” journey with the Lord. Despite subsequently leaving parish employment a few years ago, the journey continues with the Lord continuing to give me new lessons and insights, and our relationship growing towards new stages of trust and surrender on my part. Participating in the study on Hebrews is one more pearl in the strand. :)

13. What stood out to me in Tim Keller’s first sermon:
*One doesn’t get home through sprints, but in a long-term sustained way.
*the word engages both the mind and the heart
*There can be no intimacy without accepting another’s finalitites…God adjusted to our (human) finality (sin) by Jesus’ earthly existence.
*Jesus is the ultimate glory of God represented in human form…a form humans can relate to and have a personal relationship with; a form that can come into one’s life and change one into Jesus’ likeness.
*the sheet of paper example…the incomprehensible omnipotentness of Jesus
*being “furiously obsessed” with the grace of God and the gospel or be prone to drift away

14. My take-away is…Jesus is more than my mind can comprehend. He is deserving of everything I am, have, and more… Jesus’ expectation for me to be loving, humble, devoted and committed to him is not too much to ask…it is for my own good; I can never possibly ever give Jesus all that He is due.

I love seeing your freedom.