1. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  2. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  3. For Paul, the hope of the resurrection was the ultimate antidote whenever his circumstances tempted him to despair or to "lose heart."
  4. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  5. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  6. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  7. God never delights in seeing his children struggle or suffer. But God does desire that we trust him no matter what the circumstances might look like.
  8. When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.
  9. The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.
  10. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  11. Paul has zero patience for the gospel of God to be called into question, especially when the ones questioning it are the ones who should’ve known better.
  12. There is no justification by the works of the law