1. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  2. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  3. How can we be sure that we are getting a “solid spiritual diet” and not a “milky” one?
  4. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  5. 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.
  6. Only by accurately and honestly reporting the views of those with whom we disagree can we then properly address and refute them. This is the approach Solberg has taken.
  7. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  8. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  9. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  10. 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.
  11. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  12. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.