1. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  2. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  3. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  4. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  5. Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?
  6. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  7. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.
  8. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  9. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.