1. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  2. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  3. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
  4. Through Martin Luther, God would unleash a far greater storm than the one which overwhelmed Luther on July 2, 1505.
  5. The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
  6. Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.
  7. God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.
  8. 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.
  9. Sometimes it’s important to go far away to learn of holy places back home.
  10. Edward's goal of teaching his people to know the scriptures and to believe that their salvation depended on Christ is also essential for us today.