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. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. We bring nothing with us that contributes to the preaching or the hearing of God’s promise to us.
  9. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.