1. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  2. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  3. There is power in the name of Jesus, and we love to manipulate power for our own ends.
  4. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  5. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  6. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.
  7. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  8. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  9. 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.