1. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  2. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  3. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
  4. It’s God’s power that we are dealing with here that is made perfect in weakness, not ours. God’s power is made perfect in the weakness of the cross.
  5. Because of Jesus, God always hears our prayers, and he always responds to them in love–regardless of the quality or quantity of the one speaking them.
  6. That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.
  7. The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
  8. In the face of abject evil, these two faithfully cling to the words and truths of he alone who is Good, Jehovah God.
  9. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
  10. Just as the disciples on the road to Emmaus recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread, so we, through the working of the Holy Spirit, recognize our Lord in the Word and Sacraments.
  11. The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.
  12. Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.