1. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  2. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  3. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  4. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  5. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
  6. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  7. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
  8. We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
  9. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  10. It seems to me that our greatest task is not that of seeking skills and methods whereby we can inject power into the gospel, but simply to beware lest we obscure the power that the gospel is
  11. Jesus remakes us, rebuilds us, and resurrects us so the demons that hide in the cracks cannot get ahold of us, the devil cannot break us, and hell will never know us.