1. Elsewhere makes promises that can’t be kept, but God’s promises are secure, reliable, and certain.
  2. It's easy to have courage when things go well.
  3. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  4. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  5. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  6. Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”
  7. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  8. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  9. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  10. Regardless of background or beliefs, every American I talk to seems on edge, as if the sky were about to fall. But the sky is not falling.
  11. 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.
  12. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.