1. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  2. 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.
  3. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  4. With Christ as the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, the future is secure already. It’s solid right now, even when the cords seem to be fraying.
  5. 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.
  6. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
  7. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
  8. Moses is no Jesus but he, like us, is saved by Him. The law cannot enter the promised land, and yet the true and greater promised land is occupied by nothing but lawbreakers.
  9. Through Martin Luther, God would unleash a far greater storm than the one which overwhelmed Luther on July 2, 1505.
  10. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
  11. The undercurrent of Scripture is the sheer fact that Jehovah God is a God of his word.
  12. The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.