1. Moses was sent to keep the house in order, but this Child is sent to bring the house home, and you are part of that house, the household of God.
  2. Getting ready for Christ’s coming is a practice in humility.
  3. The Word of Yahweh is not a trifling thing that can be visited only when it’s convenient. It’s a book of life, for all of life, that imparts life to those who believe in it and the God of it.
  4. The youths that mock Elisha are representative of Israel’s collective contempt and disregard for all things relating to their One True God.
  5. The church is the only place God promises to lift us out of ourselves not in order to become more like God but so that we may finally be freed from our obsession with becoming little gods.
  6. The Reformation was yet another era of history when God’s people were faced with the question that Jesus asked his disciples: “Who do you say that I am?”
  7. Our experience with good fathers – even when they are not our own – can point us to God the Father.
  8. This book is for people who want to get serious about the church. It’s for pastors who are sick and tired of surfing the latest wave or jumping from one program to the other.
  9. In contrast to the human courts of our land, the Divine court never makes errors nor excuses
  10. The same Spirit who gives us his overabundant life has also given us doctrine. Scripture and Spirit cannot be put in opposition to each other.