1. Dyson demonstrated a pious persistence with Lewis, something we can emulate in our own friendships and conversations.
  2. Thanks to Barfield’s opposition, several important things happened to C.S. Lewis.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. If we believe that ours is truly the greatest story ever told, then we must share that story in creative ways and allow it to change the desires of its hearers.
  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. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  8. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  9. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  10. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  11. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.