1. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  2. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  3. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  4. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  5. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
  6. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  7. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  8. 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.
  9. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  10. The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
  11. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  12. 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.