1. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  2. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  3. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  4. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  5. It’s God’s power that we are dealing with here that is made perfect in weakness, not ours. God’s power is made perfect in the weakness of the cross.
  6. Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
  7. That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.
  8. In the face of abject evil, these two faithfully cling to the words and truths of he alone who is Good, Jehovah God.
  9. If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
  10. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.