1. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  2. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  3. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  4. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  5. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  6. 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.
  7. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  8. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  9. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  10. 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.