1. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  2. Toy Story is indeed a Christmas story.
  3. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  4. A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.
  5. You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
  6. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  7. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  8. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  9. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  10. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  11. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  12. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.