1. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  2. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  3. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  4. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  5. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  6. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  7. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  8. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  9. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  10. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  11. All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.
  12. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.