1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  4. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  5. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  6. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
  7. 1517 would not exist without the leadership, friendship, and faithfulness of Pastor Ron Hodel.
  8. We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
  9. God has found a way to be God even for the likes of us. He has found a way to save sinners.
  10. You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!
  11. 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.