1. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  2. Prior sees much of evangelicalism’s imaginary trouble arising from the fact that it emphasizes quick and dramatic conversion experiences and a personally directed relationship with God.
  3. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  4. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
  5. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  6. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  7. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  8. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  9. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  10. A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
  11. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  12. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.