1. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  2. Kyle G. Jones gives a broad primer on what apologetics is, what it hopes to accomplish, and its limitations.
  3. Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  7. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  8. Jesus’s story in Luke 16 draws definitive attention to whom God helps — namely, God always comes close in order to help those who cannot help themselves.
  9. It is of the utmost importance that pastors teach their congregation that through faith in Jesus Christ, they are fortified against the machinations of the adversary.
  10. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  11. Christ shows up in the middle of our storms and our nightmares. That’s where he sets up shop.