1. Even at Lewis’ graveside, Havard was a faithful friend, and a friend full of faith in Christ, confessing his hope in the resurrection.
  2. Dyson demonstrated a pious persistence with Lewis, something we can emulate in our own friendships and conversations.
  3. Thanks to Barfield’s opposition, several important things happened to C.S. Lewis.
  4. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  5. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
  6. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  7. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  8. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  9. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  10. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  11. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  12. God resolves his wrath through the unexpected giving of his Son.