1. This book is not in your hands so that we can simply commiserate with each other’s difficulties. It is meant to pierce your sin-darkened night with the light of God’s Word.
  2. I want the beginning of my funeral to be focused on Jesus, as well as the middle, the end, and every point in between.
  3. Who we are buried with matters. But there is no need to go out and find a dead prophet so you can join him six feet under.
  4. The promise here is that God is present with us in our troubles, issuing commands to save us before we ask. God does not ignore our suffering and cries.
  5. You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!
  6. God is not a preoccupied parent, he’s an invested and interested tender loving Father. He values what perplexes us.
  7. This world of unbearable grief and accidental calamity is being renewed and, soon, will be completely bereft of every pernicious foe.
  8. There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.
  9. God’s design in the Law is to enable man to know himself; to perceive the false and unjustified state of his heart; to discover how far he is from God and to disdain his own goodness.
  10. Rest doesn’t come cheap. Perhaps there’s no scarcer commodity in our time. Plenty sell it, but there’s no warranty, and it seldom lasts.
  11. 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.
  12. Aquinas would craft a systematic theology that did with the matter of faith what Aristotle had done with the natural world.