1. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  2. 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.
  3. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord.
  4. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  5. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.
  6. Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
  7. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
  8. We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
  9. God's Son comes to deal with the infestation of sin, but in an unforeseen twist of grace, he’s the only one who goes under the knife.
  10. I wanted the devotions of this book to be a source of strength for everyone who has waited all night to see the sun come up again.
  11. The God who abundantly restores is still in the business of total restoration, even today. Even now the God of heaven restores dead sinners to life.