1. The legal record of debt for our sin was canceled because Jesus satisfied the legal demands for us by his life, death, and resurrection.
  2. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  3. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  4. There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
  5. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  6. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  7. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  8. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  9. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  10. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
  11. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.