1. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.
  2. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  3. If we just say to God, “We don’t get it, please explain,” he will. He will send us a preacher to point us to his words for more clarification.
  4. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  5. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  6. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  7. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
  8. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  9. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  10. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  11. Forty days after giving birth, Mary, along with her husband Joseph, presented their firstborn Son at the temple and "bought" him back with a sacrifice of two small birds. This is known as the "Presentation of Our Lord."
  12. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).