1. Great things are contained in these seemingly unimportant words: "Behold, your king." Such boundless gifts are brought by this poor and despised king.
  2. It is good to remember that this true story, is also beautiful.
  3. The Lord sees the blood of the Lamb upon us, but does not merely pass over us in mercy. He passes into us by grace.
  4. What grace is this? It’s grace from Christ, who often seizes us when we least expect it, even through the hands of His enemies.
  5. Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.
  6. God is mercy. He was mercy then. He’s mercy now. God showed them His glory, if only a reflection, in the face of Moses.
  7. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  8. Only in Christ has God taken upon himself the worst that could ever happen between God and man: he has allowed himself to be rejected.
  9. If we think God’s power, love and beauty are reserved merely for the glories of Transfiguration, then we have not understood the Father; we have not understood divine revelation.
  10. Here, robed in Word and Sacrament, is your King, infant though He be, come out of eternity into time to bring you out of time and into eternity.
  11. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
  12. You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.