1. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  2. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  3. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  4. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  5. St. Patrick was great but only because he was a slave to Christ.
  6. Patrick's breakthrough came when he began to leverage his knowledge of the native language and customs to build a bridge between Irish lore and the Christian mythos.
  7. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  8. 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.
  9. Christ's resurrection does not merely negate the bitterness of sin; it changes it into a source of divine sweetness, embodying the promise of a new life for us and a restored existence overshadowed by heavenly hope.
  10. When the Savior gets on our trail, nothing, not even the grave and hell, can stop him.
  11. Amy Mantravadi shares about the importance and influlnce of Martin Chemitz in the predestination controversy.
  12. Paul has zero patience for the gospel of God to be called into question, especially when the ones questioning it are the ones who should’ve known better.