1. Armed with great analogies, airtight logic, and razor sharp wit, Lewis keeps you spellbound from one chapter to another as you find yourself going “further up and further in.”
  2. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  3. God has found a way to be God even for the likes of us. He has found a way to save sinners.
  4. You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Luther had a living Word from God intended to land squarely among sinners.
  8. Only in Christ has God taken upon himself the worst that could ever happen between God and man: he has allowed himself to be rejected.
  9. 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.
  10. When we read a good story, we sojourn with the characters and authors upon the trail of longing. Such is the pilgrim’s path.
  11. The sword of the spirit in Holy Scripture does indeed show us our sin, but thanks be to God, it also shows us our Savior.
  12. Aquinas would craft a systematic theology that did with the matter of faith what Aristotle had done with the natural world.