1. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  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. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  6. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  7. With Christ as the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, the future is secure already. It’s solid right now, even when the cords seem to be fraying.
  8. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.
  9. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.