1. Rick Ritchie gives a brief summary on the importance of Plato’s thought in Christianity
  2. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  3. Bonhoeffer was in the unenviable position of trying to break a spell. The spell was the Nazi crisis, where the totalitarian state threatened the church, and yet to many, seemed to be saving the culture and nation from mortal dangers.
  4. Whoever your president is, you have a King. A King who elected you.
  5. Physicality is good. Some way or another, choose a full performance of Messiah and give it your full attention. More than one time. Consider it a devotional practice.
  6. We have seen a vision better than an angel. We have seen God on the cross. A God who is willing to suffer for us.