1. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  2. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  3. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  4. There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
  5. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  6. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  7. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  8. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  9. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  10. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  11. With Christ as the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, the future is secure already. It’s solid right now, even when the cords seem to be fraying.
  12. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.