1. Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.
  2. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  3. God has found a way to be God even for the likes of us. He has found a way to save sinners.
  4. False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.
  5. Sometimes it’s important to go far away to learn of holy places back home.
  6. You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!
  7. When we own up to our sin, our Father is not scandalized, and his response is not to reconsider his calling us.
  8. There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.
  9. Only in Christ has God taken upon himself the worst that could ever happen between God and man: he has allowed himself to be rejected.
  10. An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.
  11. When we read a good story, we sojourn with the characters and authors upon the trail of longing. Such is the pilgrim’s path.
  12. The sword of the spirit in Holy Scripture does indeed show us our sin, but thanks be to God, it also shows us our Savior.