1. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  2. Nothing moves or drives Paul more than preaching about “Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2).
  3. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  4. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  5. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  6. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
  7. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  8. This sermon was originally given at Luther Seminary chapel on May 20, 1986.
  9. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  10. Predestination, Jim knew, is no longer a frightening doctrine of mystery when you understand that God makes his choice about you in the simple word of God, given from one sinner to another.
  11. The answer to our messages is God's "yes," Jesus, who sends his preachers to proclaim that there's no place for us now other than in the grip of our God and Savior.
  12. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen