1. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  2. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  3. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  4. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  5. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  6. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  7. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  8. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  9. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.