1. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  2. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  3. Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.
  4. False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.
  5. Sometimes it’s important to go far away to learn of holy places back home.
  6. When we own up to our sin, our Father is not scandalized, and his response is not to reconsider his calling us.
  7. There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.
  8. You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.
  9. Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
  10. Our children are not our own, but even more, our children are born in need. They are sinful, from conception and from birth.
  11. Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.
  12. Faith should later again flow forth from our heart’s depths to our neighbor freely and unhindered in good works; not that we wish to rest our salvation in them; for God will not have that, but wishes the conscience to rest in himself alone.