1. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  2. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  3. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  4. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  5. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  6. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  7. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  8. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
  9. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  10. 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.
  11. Christian mercy should not seek its own. It must be round, and open its eyes and look at all alike, friend and foe, as our heavenly Father does.