1. This hymn is not for people who feel strong, but those who are weak.
  2. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  3. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  4. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  5. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  10. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  11. 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.
  12. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.