1. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  2. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  3. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  4. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  5. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  6. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  7. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.
  8. Psalm 8 is a trailer for the entire biblical movie, and the entire biblical movie centers on Christ.
  9. A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.
  10. 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.
  11. If a key part of the Reformation was placing God’s Word back into the hands of the people in a clear, understandable way, then John of Ragusa can be called a “Prometheus” in his own right.
  12. When the Reformers read the Bible (especially when studied in the original languages), they found a God who was gracious and merciful for the sake of Christ.