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. There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
  4. We did not say “Goodbye” to our son on the day of his burial. We said, “Luke, we’ll see you soon.”
  5. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  6. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  7. The legal record of debt for our sin was canceled because Jesus satisfied the legal demands for us by his life, death, and resurrection.
  8. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  9. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  10. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  11. 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.
  12. To “trust in God in trial” means we fight our battles by kneeling and praying to “the Holy One of Israel,” who works out our deliverance by himself.