Walking in the light entails not so much a spotless moral record, but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.

If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it. 

Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift. 

 God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.

How does Hezekiah respond when the enemy came knocking on his door?

When we confess that we believe in God and his saving work for us in Jesus, we also confess a reality about ourselves as sinful people and about God as our gracious forgiver.

We bring nothing with us that contributes to the preaching or the hearing of God’s promise to us.

God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.

Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?

At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.