1. Forty-five seconds is about how long I have as a pastor leading a Sunday morning service to sit at the feet of the cross and receive Jesus’ body and blood given to me by the hands of another at the Lord’s Table.
  2. God will give you more than you can handle. But he doesn’t leave you alone. Not at all.
  3. Take away the communal aspect, take away the communal gathering around Christ’s body and blood, and the Christian will begin to suffer a malnutrition of faith.
  4. Christian hope means always hope in God and hope in Christ simultaneously without distinction.
  5. Luther saw that God demands not that we become perfectly righteous like God but that we simply receive the gift of righteousness; a gift that actually makes us worthy.
  6. Jesus rejects what we believe is most necessary and instead points us to his pain, suffering, death, and self-sacrifice.
  7. When you walk into church on Sunday, you may not notice, but there are wounded soldiers sitting in every single pew.
  8. When it comes to the Book of Concord, there are really two types of people: those who read the contents and see a series of rap albums, and those who aren’t Flame.
  9. People do not seek the gospel because they want to, but because God’s Word drives them to it.
  10. What is it that the 13th session actually has to say about the Eucharist, and how does it compare to what Luther and the reformers confessed about the Lord’s Supper?
  11. Luther's signature insight on the sacraments was that God’s word of promise doesn’t just symbolize an absent reality but that it gives and bestows God’s real favor.
  12. When we proclaim Jesus' death we are, at the same time, preaching that this cup from which we drink is the cup of salvation for all who believe and receive it.