1. 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.
  2. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  3. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  4. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  5. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  6. There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
  7. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  8. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  9. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.