1. The season of Lent gives almost unparalleled opportunity for preachers to placard before their auditors the Cross of Christ and beckon Christians to take up their cross and follow Him.
  2. What does being free from sin, which is obviously a good thing, have to do with being free from the Law, which sounds dangerous?
  3. The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.
  4. Cliché preaching may be symptomatic of shallow, consumerist culture, perpetuating a problem rather than the solution.
  5. The preached word ensured the work of the Holy Spirit, so long as it was the written word of the Gospel. Gospel preaching was the one domain in which we could be assured of the convicting, saving, and sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit.