1. There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
  2. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  3. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  4. 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.
  5. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  6. There is power in the name of Jesus, and we love to manipulate power for our own ends.
  7. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  8. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  9. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.