1. Baptism is always valid because no unrighteousness or faithlessness on our part could ify God’s faithfulness.
  2. I am cognizant of the powerful lessons for life I owe to those nights in the air-raid shelter.
  3. God will give you more than you can handle. But he doesn’t leave you alone. Not at all.
  4. The reason the mind is endlessly troubled about God predestining everything is the vague generalization. Generalizations are cold as ice, without the warm Christ.
  5. The Psalms aren’t the clandestine successes of a faithful soul, but are the journaled hopes of a desperate soul — of one teetering on the edge of oblivion.
  6. The Church is where God has instituted the office of the preacher of the gospel. And if you are let-down, the gospel is what you need to hear.
  7. This tiny rural church would bulge at the seams with worshipers from realms seen and unseen, all mixed together in the adoration of the Lamb.
  8. We do not have to endure the pain and suffering of this fallen existence forever, just for a little while.
  9. The acquisition of salvation, the giving of salvation, and the keeping of salvation are entirely dependent upon the Savior himself.
  10. The only one rightful heir of the kingdom of God, inherits from us, our cross, and descends into the kingdom of the damned.
  11. The giver of life, the source of joy, stands weeping together with the human family as they grieve under the curse of sin.
  12. Take away the communal aspect, take away the communal gathering around Christ’s body and blood, and the Christian will begin to suffer a malnutrition of faith.