1. 1517 Resources to help Celebrate Reformation Day
  2. The needs of the people remain the same, but now the people are you and me. We still sin, and that sin causes so many challenges in our lives.
  3. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  4. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  5. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  6. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  7. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  8. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  9. The good news is that with our God there is always more: more than we deserve, dare, ask, or expect, more than we can see, hear, feel, or think.
  10. Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.
  11. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
  12. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.