1. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
  2. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  3. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  4. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  5. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
  6. Walther’s living legacy is his enduring teaching on how to distinguish the law and the gospel in the Church’s proclamation.
  7. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  8. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  9. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  10. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  11. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  12. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.