1. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  2. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  3. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  4. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  5. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  6. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  7. With Christ as the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, the future is secure already. It’s solid right now, even when the cords seem to be fraying.
  8. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.
  9. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
  10. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  11. Neomonasticism—that is, the idea that church work is more important than regular work—implies that God cares more about the spiritual than the physical.
  12. Christian mercy should not seek its own. It must be round, and open its eyes and look at all alike, friend and foe, as our heavenly Father does.