1. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  2. There is power in the name of Jesus, and we love to manipulate power for our own ends.
  3. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  4. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.
  5. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  6. 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.
  7. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  8. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.
  9. 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.