1. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  2. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  7. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  8. 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.
  9. The king has arrived and has already begun his reign forever and ever.
  10. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.
  11. O weary ones, O long-time waiting and watching ones, O ones who are late to the game, he is your rest this busy season, and always.
  12. We will not become hopeless because the Lord is with us.