1. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  2. For as you pick up the Holy Bible, God’s Word to you and for you in Christ, the words of the prophet Isaiah echo in your ears, "The Word of the Lord Endures Forever."
  3. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  4. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  5. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  6. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  7. Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?
  8. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  9. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.