1. It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.
  2. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  3. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  4. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  5. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  6. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  7. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  8. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  9. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  10. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  11. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  12. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.