1. As Luther said, “Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf of spring.”
  2. Church historians attempt to determine why Melanchthon made those controversial decisions.
  3. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  4. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  5. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  6. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  7. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  8. 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.
  9. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.