1. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  2. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  3. 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.
  4. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
  5. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  6. Neomonasticism—that is, the idea that church work is more important than regular work—implies that God cares more about the spiritual than the physical.
  7. Through Martin Luther, God would unleash a far greater storm than the one which overwhelmed Luther on July 2, 1505.
  8. Christian mercy should not seek its own. It must be round, and open its eyes and look at all alike, friend and foe, as our heavenly Father does.
  9. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  10. When the Law is viewed in its true light, when its "glory" is revealed, it is found to do nothing more than to kill man and sink him into condemnation.
  11. The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
  12. I trust that because of the gospel, God will continue to mend what I, in my sin, continue to break.