Theme: Our Lord shows mercy even in the place where religious regulation condemns.

Theme: God, in love, sometimes allows His people to suffer in order to restore Himself as their all.

Theme: The Holy Spirit provides for the church through 'ministering' gifts.

Theme: The Holy Spirit gifts the church with gifted leaders who equip God's people for ministry.

Theme: In spite of its imperfections, we have great reason to thank God for the church.

Theme: We tend toward divisions in the church when we fail to keep the cross of Jesus in view.

Theme: The wisdom of God in the message of the cross cannot be judged rightly by the 'wisdom' of fallen humanity.

Theme: God sometimes tests us with uncertainties about the future to prove our devotion to the Gospel in the present.