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. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  6. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  7. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  8. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  9. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  10. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.