1. I trust that because of the gospel, God will continue to mend what I, in my sin, continue to break.
  2. Both Paul and Martin Luther were Olympic champions when it came to ladder climbing.
  3. Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.
  4. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  5. An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.
  6. You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.
  7. Look the judge in the eye and pin your sin on Jesus, the divine judge’s son. Jesus knows you can’t do it, so he trades places with you and pits himself against God’s righteous demands.
  8. Jesus meets us in our life of lies, in our falsehoods, in the untruth of our being, and in the company, we create to cover up our nakedness.
  9. The way to salvation does not consist in works invented by men, but that which leads to God is believing and trusting in Him.
  10. We do not live in the greatness of our own deeds. We boast in the greatness of one deed that God himself has done through Jesus Christ on the cross.
  11. As the body positivity movement has gained traction, we must also be aware of some of its pitfalls