1. Wilson reminds his reader over and over again that, in his love, God accepts sinners as they are so that we may be delivered from the self-acceptance, self-worship, and self-justification of our selfish definitions of love.
  2. When we — sinful, reprehensible we — become the enforcers of justice, we never bring about true justice. We either go too far or not far enough.
  3. Christ has taken our failures and defeats and exchanges that yoke for his own.
  4. Even if not a turning point, 1518 is a point of no return for Luther.
  5. The Son of God is still God the Son in the Incarnation.
  6. Our Lord is not only the King of creation but the King of creativity.
  7. God and Jeremiah may have been looking at the same person, but they were seeing very different things.
  8. God has in fact executed his plans for his people, plans of peace (probably a better translation than welfare), a future, and a hope in Jesus Christ.
  9. The goal of language in the mouth of a Christian isn’t to hold power for ourselves but to give it.
  10. God uses the unlikely, the unexpected, and sometimes even the unsavory to deliver us and to crush the heads of his enemies
  11. God’s word is creative in both the imaginative sense and the constructive sense. It brings things into existence and displays new ideas, images, and concepts we did not previously perceive.
  12. The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.