1. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
  2. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  3. 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.
  4. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  5. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  6. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  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.