1. Luther's emphasis on the need for sinners to have preachers who can provide them with the comfort and support they need for their faith in Jesus Christ and life is as relevant today as it was in his time.
  2. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  3. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  4. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  5. 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.
  6. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
  7. 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.
  8. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  9. A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
  10. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  11. Predestination, Jim knew, is no longer a frightening doctrine of mystery when you understand that God makes his choice about you in the simple word of God, given from one sinner to another.