1. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  2. The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
  3. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  4. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
  5. 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.
  6. It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.
  7. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  11. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  12. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.