1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  4. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  5. 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.
  6. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
  7. The king has arrived and has already begun his reign forever and ever.
  8. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.
  9. O weary ones, O long-time waiting and watching ones, O ones who are late to the game, he is your rest this busy season, and always.
  10. We will not become hopeless because the Lord is with us.
  11. We ache in eager anticipation as we see Christ in action and as we take in the snapshots of his life, death, and resurrection.