1. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  2. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  3. 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.”
  4. Patrick's breakthrough came when he began to leverage his knowledge of the native language and customs to build a bridge between Irish lore and the Christian mythos.
  5. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  6. The church is called to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. Where is that message found? In every blade of grass, on every page of Scripture.
  7. 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.
  8. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  9. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  10. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  11. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.