1. Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
  2. The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
  3. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  4. 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.
  5. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  6. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  7. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  8. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.
  9. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.