1. 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.
  2. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  3. There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
  4. The legal record of debt for our sin was canceled because Jesus satisfied the legal demands for us by his life, death, and resurrection.
  5. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  6. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  7. 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.
  8. To “trust in God in trial” means we fight our battles by kneeling and praying to “the Holy One of Israel,” who works out our deliverance by himself.
  9. We bring nothing with us that contributes to the preaching or the hearing of God’s promise to us.
  10. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  11. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  12. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.