1. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  2. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  3. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  4. Jesus has gone ahead of you on the road, and promises to be with you still.
  5. We are not pursuing dragons; we are the dragons. We are, all of us, Eustace Scrubb.
  6. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  7. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  8. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  9. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  10. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  11. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.