1. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  2. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  3. The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.
  4. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  5. Jesus does not put us on trial and make us pay for our own sin, but he, himself, is put on trial in our place.
  6. Our Judge (the one who can condemn us) has become our Advocate (the one who doesn’t condemn us) because he is also our Substitute (the one who takes our condemnation).
  7. Scott Hall may not have been a theologian or a preacher but for me, at that moment he might as well have been.
  8. The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.
  9. At its heart, this is what Deacon King Kong is all about: the paradox of Jesus carving his victory out of the last thing we expect, not our triumphs but our defeats.
  10. Viewing the Word as a unified theological narrative prevents us from treating the Scriptures like a cage match between competing theological systems, with prophets duking it out with apostles, and psalmists with evangelists, all supposedly fighting for their voice to be heard.
  11. While the insights in each chapter are uniquely personal to the individual writers, the overarching theme is one of the sufficiency of Christ.