1. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  2. The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos
  3. 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?
  4. Of all the Inklings, Williams was certainly the most enigmatic. His mind and body were always moving.
  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. Even at Lewis’ graveside, Havard was a faithful friend, and a friend full of faith in Christ, confessing his hope in the resurrection.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.