1. From the beginning to the end of his letter, John really wants one thing: for us to be in Jesus.
  2. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  3. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  4. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  5. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  6. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  7. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
  8. The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.
  9. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  10. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.
  11. For Japan’s highly secularized elite, alienated by collapsing opportunity and the materialistic void left behind, Bach’s music was a balm.
  12. Jesus does not put us on trial and make us pay for our own sin, but he, himself, is put on trial in our place.