1. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  2. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  3. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  4. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  5. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  6. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  7. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  8. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  9. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  10. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  11. The gospel's message is the scandalous announcement that Yahweh has stooped to our frame, to where we are.
  12. The answer to our messages is God's "yes," Jesus, who sends his preachers to proclaim that there's no place for us now other than in the grip of our God and Savior.