1. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
  2. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  3. It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  8. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  9. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  10. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  11. 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.
  12. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.