1. Our experience with good fathers – even when they are not our own – can point us to God the Father.
  2. We can not give our Heavenly Father anything that will make him love us more or less. He gives and we receive.
  3. The world doesn’t need dads who are more stressed than they already are. It needs fathers who care for their families, not in heroic ways, but in common, everyday ways.
  4. This tale of two professors has a common theme, plot, and denouement - the good news of the one true story, Jesus Christ crucified for you.
  5. Where there’s more sin, there’s more grace! Are you comfortable with that? That the greater the sin, the greater the grace? Could it be that easy?
  6. Life will not go as planned nor as we would hope, but "God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
  7. We don’t deserve Jesus' friendship, but he nonetheless embraces us with it, along with his promise that he will never leave us nor forsake us.
  8. The scope of catechesis from the Reformation was broad and included not only instruction at church but in the home and in schools.
  9. Sometimes I think I've gone through the whole forgiveness process, but forgiveness for me often feels like I'm weeding my garden. I forgive and another offense pops up.
  10. While we are promised that God will always be with us, we are also told of the benefits that can come to us even in our pain.
  11. I saw a beautiful picture of grace yesterday. A real bestowing of favor on someone less deserving.
  12. I have found that if I want to get people talking (especially guys), all I have to do is ask them about their father.