1. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  2. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  3. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  4. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  5. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  6. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  7. The gospel's message is the scandalous announcement that Yahweh has stooped to our frame, to where we are.
  8. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  9. God resolves his wrath through the unexpected giving of his Son.
  10. Toy Story is indeed a Christmas story.
  11. That great truth of creedal Christianity – that God is man in Christ – is not set forth for our speculative enjoyment.
  12. When we pray to Jesus, we pray to the King's right hand. We know one who has the Father's ear, respect and trust. And the one who intercedes for us is still one of us, with nail-pierced hands.