1. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord.
  2. The worship service is less like servants entering the throne room to wait on the king’s needs and more like a father joining his family around the dining room table.
  3. Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
  4. The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
  5. God's Son comes to deal with the infestation of sin, but in an unforeseen twist of grace, he’s the only one who goes under the knife.
  6. The God who abundantly restores is still in the business of total restoration, even today. Even now the God of heaven restores dead sinners to life.
  7. Every part of Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene in John 20 was incredibly intentional and personal for God to systematically redeem what was lost.
  8. Hamilton writes lucidly. He has that rare gift of walking the tightrope between the academy and the church, being able to communicate to both groups in the same book.
  9. The Word of the Lord is sure. The enemy is defeated. Salvation is waiting for you.
  10. God is often hidden in history, even as we make it now, but He is always manifest where He has promised to be.
  11. Mephibosheth’s story is a living parable of the gospel. It reeks of redemption, demonstrating precisely what Christ does for even the chiefest of sinners.
  12. Viewing the Word as a unified theological narrative prevents us from treating the Scriptures like a cage match between competing theological systems, with prophets duking it out with apostles, and psalmists with evangelists, all supposedly fighting for their voice to be heard.