1. This feast is the Gospel, “the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”
  2. What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
  3. In this article Amy Mantravadi give a short but helpful summary of the differences in Lutheran and Reformed thought regarding assurance.
  4. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  5. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  6. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  7. How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?
  8. God knows that when we face insurmountable odds in our moments of weakness, we are more likely to turn to him in trust and reliance.
  9. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  10. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  11. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  12. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.