1. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  2. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  3. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  4. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  5. The Ichthus is a confession in picture form, a visual sermon of the gospel of Christ crucified.
  6. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  7. The legal record of debt for our sin was canceled because Jesus satisfied the legal demands for us by his life, death, and resurrection.
  8. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  9. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  10. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  11. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  12. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.