1. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  2. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
  3. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  4. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  5. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  6. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  7. There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
  8. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  9. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  10. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.