1. We can’t remove our crosses or the reality of our deaths. Only Jesus can.
  2. People everywhere, every day, feel God’s wrath—and not as merely an afterlife threat but as a present reality.
  3. Faith, for Peter, is not suspended in religious abstraction. It is tied to something that happened in time and space.
  4. Baptism does not promise us chocolates or flowers, but something far greater: life in Christ.
  5. The Promised Land invites us to laugh at how relatable it is to be exhausted and exasperated by all the people, and the egos and opinions they bring with them, that come with living.

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