1. The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
  2. Our God is the one who brings back the exile, who restores the outcast, he is the one who devises means to do so.
  3. Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
  4. The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
  5. If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
  6. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
  7. I trust that because of the gospel, God will continue to mend what I, in my sin, continue to break.
  8. God's Son comes to deal with the infestation of sin, but in an unforeseen twist of grace, he’s the only one who goes under the knife.
  9. God excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.
  10. On May 2nd, Cantate Sunday, in the year 1507, Luther celebrated his first Mass.
  11. To give us God’s name, the name that is above every name, Christ gave us the exact words to say at baptism: the name of the triune God who is three persons, one God: “I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
  12. False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.