1. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  2. Only by accurately and honestly reporting the views of those with whom we disagree can we then properly address and refute them. This is the approach Solberg has taken.
  3. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  4. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  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 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.
  11. The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.
  12. The king has arrived and has already begun his reign forever and ever.