1. There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
  2. The legal record of debt for our sin was canceled because Jesus satisfied the legal demands for us by his life, death, and resurrection.
  3. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  4. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  5. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  6. 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.
  7. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  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. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  11. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.