1. God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.
  2. Make no mistake, sinners are in fact being pursued by a most hideous beast called sin, death, and the devil, unleashed and striking continuously.
  3. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  4. Free-range Christ is fearful Christ because he is present, speaking, and I just crucified him.
  5. Easter must be seen in light of the cross. It must never overshadow Good Friday. They are a packaged deal!
  6. My one hope of not only entering a right relationship with God but also stepping into glory is the same: it’s Christ. It’s always Christ.
  7. For Luther, those who refuse Christ as a curse want their sin removed not in Christ but in themselves.
  8. God is mercy. He was mercy then. He’s mercy now. God showed them His glory, if only a reflection, in the face of Moses.
  9. The firestorm of the Reformation which turned Europe upside-down was not Luther’s doing. It was the Word, and the Spirit working through it.
  10. The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.
  11. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!