1. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  2. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  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. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  6. 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.
  7. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  8. Neomonasticism—that is, the idea that church work is more important than regular work—implies that God cares more about the spiritual than the physical.
  9. Christian mercy should not seek its own. It must be round, and open its eyes and look at all alike, friend and foe, as our heavenly Father does.
  10. There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.
  11. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.