1. The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
  2. God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. For Luther, those who refuse Christ as a curse want their sin removed not in Christ but in themselves.
  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. Christ powerless on the Cross is where the false definitions of glory theologies are exposed and everything is turned upside down.
  9. Luther’s confessions and writings during that time demonstrated the diagnosis of the problem he faced had always been the same.
  10. The problem with sin is that we fail to honor God who wants to take our hearts captive and fill us with his goodness.
  11. 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.