1. The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
  2. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  3. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  4. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  5. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  6. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  7. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  8. Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?
  9. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  10. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  11. With Christ as the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, the future is secure already. It’s solid right now, even when the cords seem to be fraying.
  12. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.