1. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  2. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  3. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.
  4. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  5. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
  6. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  7. The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
  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. 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.”