1. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  2. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  3. Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
  4. Jesus remakes us, rebuilds us, and resurrects us so the demons that hide in the cracks cannot get ahold of us, the devil cannot break us, and hell will never know us.
  5. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  6. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  7. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  8. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  9. 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.