Who does my body belong to? What is the point of my sexuality? How we answer these two questions will determine our sexual ethic. Jesus gives us a radically counter-cultural answer to them, and in doing so, gives us not a sexual revolution, but a sexual reformation.

As we persevere in following Jesus, God will make us into mature disciples and a united community with a powerful and effective witness to the world around us.

The solution to our suffering is not in this world, but in Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection defeated the agents of human suffering and secured a future free of suffering for all who trust in him.

We are invited to behold Jesus, and in beholding, to become like him.

Jesus gives us a choice: We can pursue the life of the world at the price of our own soul, or we can abandon the life of the world, follow Christ, and gain the only life that is truly worth living.

True vision leads to true discipleship. Once we see Jesus rightly—as the serving, suffering, sacrificial King—we’ll be ready to get up and follow him on the way of discipleship.

Human beings aren't morally neutral in need of behavior modification; we are, at our core, corrupt, in need of a new heart.

Jesus didn’t come to bring religion, but gospel—good news. Religion says we work our way to God; gospel says God has come to us. Religion is exclusive; gospel is inclusive. Religion tells us to be good so God will accept us; gospel tells us to be good because God has accepted us.

Only Jesus Christ can bring satisfaction and safe passage through the seas of life and death.

We must be careful that our familiarity with Christianity doesn't breed skepticism—a posture that is incompatible with the life of faith.

In a sequence of four miracles, Jesus proves he can do what no one else can. These miracles attest to his identity: he is Lord, fully God and fully man, the divine-human King of God's kingdom. And what he accomplished physically by these signs, he has accomplished spiritually by his death and resurrection.

Jesus told a parable about a sower, seed, and soils. The Word of Christ only bears fruit in fertile soil; we must, therefore, listen to it carefully, and tend to the condition of our hearts.

There are various responses to Jesus—people oppose him, try to contain him, and try to use him—but the right response to Jesus is obedience to his commands and participation in his mission.

Our understanding of authority, our community, our religious practices, our theology, and our ethics are all challenged by Jesus. We can outright oppose him for this, we can ignore his claims and try to relate to him on our own terms, or we can submit to him and let him change our paradigms.