1. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  2. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.
  3. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  4. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  5. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  6. Edward's goal of teaching his people to know the scriptures and to believe that their salvation depended on Christ is also essential for us today.
  7. Confession is not another ecclesiastical bludgeon but is instead a gift. There we can tell the truth about ourselves, knowing that Christ has only mercy for us in response.
  8. Luther had a living Word from God intended to land squarely among sinners.
  9. An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.