1. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  2. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  3. Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.
  4. Dyson demonstrated a pious persistence with Lewis, something we can emulate in our own friendships and conversations.
  5. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
  6. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  7. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  8. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  9. Jesus’s story in Luke 16 draws definitive attention to whom God helps — namely, God always comes close in order to help those who cannot help themselves.
  10. Is salvation by the law or not? Moses or Jesus? Indeed, we find a fundamental parting of the ways put forward here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
  11. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
  12. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.