1. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  2. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  3. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  4. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  5. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  6. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  7. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  8. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  9. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  10. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
  11. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.