1. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  2. 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."
  3. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  4. Let us rejoice, then, in this grace so that our glory may be the testimony of our conscience wherein we glory not in ourselves but in the Lord (2 Cor. 1:12).
  5. The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.
  6. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  7. A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.
  8. Who is God really? He is offensive, anarchic by the world’s standards, and far too gracious to people who don’t deserve his time or attention.
  9. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
  10. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  11. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  12. To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.