1. The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
  2. 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.
  3. Armed with great analogies, airtight logic, and razor sharp wit, Lewis keeps you spellbound from one chapter to another as you find yourself going “further up and further in.”
  4. 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.
  5. God has found a way to be God even for the likes of us. He has found a way to save sinners.
  6. You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. When we read a good story, we sojourn with the characters and authors upon the trail of longing. Such is the pilgrim’s path.
  10. 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.
  11. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
  12. What I like about Giertz’s approach is the devotional nature of these commentaries. He’s a pastor concerned with what these texts have to say to us today.