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. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  5. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  6. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  7. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
  8. 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.
  9. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.