1. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  2. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  3. We are the fruit that grows from the branch, which extends from the trunk of the tree, which is rooted in the soil that it grows out of, which is all Christ.
  4. In the Word, you find peace. It proclaims peace first between you and God because of Jesus. That empowers you to deal peacefully with others and brings you peace of mind.
  5. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  6. God never delights in seeing his children struggle or suffer. But God does desire that we trust him no matter what the circumstances might look like.
  7. Jesus will lead us through the deep waters onto the dry land of that celestial shore, where he will wipe away every tear from our eyes.
  8. The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.
  9. Anderson encourages us to meditate upon the ways that Christ truly is the end of our exploring.
  10. How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?
  11. God knows that when we face insurmountable odds in our moments of weakness, we are more likely to turn to him in trust and reliance.
  12. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.