1. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  2. Attempting to escape the errors of medieval Catholic thinking, Agricola ended up making the same mistake of conflating law and gospel.
  3. Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.
  4. Prior sees much of evangelicalism’s imaginary trouble arising from the fact that it emphasizes quick and dramatic conversion experiences and a personally directed relationship with God.
  5. It was meant to be Karlstadt’s moment to shine, but all anyone remembered was Luther.
  6. As Luther said, “Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf of spring.”
  7. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  8. Church historians attempt to determine why Melanchthon made those controversial decisions.
  9. His successes were not the result of his brilliance, might, and ability as an apostle. They were the result of the all-sufficient grace of God.
  10. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  11. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.