1. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  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. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.
  5. The church is called to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. Where is that message found? In every blade of grass, on every page of Scripture.
  6. We are not pursuing dragons; we are the dragons. We are, all of us, Eustace Scrubb.
  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. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  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. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.