1. Jesus weeps because his heart pulses with furious rage and fierce love.
  2. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
  3. While midnight might seem long, the mercy of God assures us that the morning will come.
  4. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
  5. In the tumultuous sea of information, opinions, and ideologies that break over us each day, we hold fast to the anchor of our faith—Jesus, the true prophet.
  6. A pastor is sent to proclaim the unconditional grace of God, reminding us again and again that it is our Heavenly Father who reaches out to us in love through his Christ-won forgiveness, and not the other way around.
  7. If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
  8. The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
  9. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  10. Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
  11. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.