1. No plot spoilers here just some really Good News
  2. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  3. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  4. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  5. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  6. 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.
  7. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
  8. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  9. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  10. Is salvation by the law or not? Moses or Jesus? Indeed, we find a fundamental parting of the ways put forward here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
  11. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
  12. 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.