1. Because this life is transient and we already live in the new and eternal age restored in Christ (at least in part), our preoccupations are different to those bound to this world and life.
  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. Here is Paul’s repacking of the Christmas gift in terms of the personal and corporate implications of God so loving the world that He gave His only begotten Son.
  4. Why is it important for us to confess and remember the virgin birth? It is important because of its place within the total story of redemption.
  5. These exhortations are dependent upon the accomplishments of Christ in the first Advent, with the upshot that upon the final advent the faithful will stand “sanctified completely” and “blameless.” Be mindful of both, neglect neither.
  6. The sneak-peek vision of the world to come, a preview of the Last Day, the Day of the Lord, has already been revealed, declares Peter.
  7. Human history and especially the Christian life have a shape and Jesus is its shaper at every point.
  8. The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the one true God appointed the Man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order. A man got us into this mess; the Man would get it out again.
  9. There is life after death and, more gloriously, there is life after life after death, the resurrection of the body.
  10. Mindful that the pagans’ understanding of death is a finality, Paul says, “NO!” Death is not the end of humanity in God’s new world.
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