1. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  2. Luther's September Testament not only shaped the reformers’ theology but also was as big an influence on the German language as Shakespeare was for English.
  3. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  4. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  5. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  6. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  7. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
  8. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  9. Neomonasticism—that is, the idea that church work is more important than regular work—implies that God cares more about the spiritual than the physical.