1. All human wisdom, righteousness, and holiness are made futile in that which belongs to God’s kingdom.
  2. Edward's goal of teaching his people to know the scriptures and to believe that their salvation depended on Christ is also essential for us today.
  3. For Luther, those who refuse Christ as a curse want their sin removed not in Christ but in themselves.
  4. Confession is not another ecclesiastical bludgeon but is instead a gift. There we can tell the truth about ourselves, knowing that Christ has only mercy for us in response.
  5. Luther had a living Word from God intended to land squarely among sinners.
  6. Christ powerless on the Cross is where the false definitions of glory theologies are exposed and everything is turned upside down.
  7. The firestorm of the Reformation which turned Europe upside-down was not Luther’s doing. It was the Word, and the Spirit working through it.
  8. Luther’s confessions and writings during that time demonstrated the diagnosis of the problem he faced had always been the same.
  9. God’s design in the Law is to enable man to know himself; to perceive the false and unjustified state of his heart; to discover how far he is from God and to disdain his own goodness.
  10. An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.
  11. Aquinas would craft a systematic theology that did with the matter of faith what Aristotle had done with the natural world.