1. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  2. Free-range Christ is fearful Christ because he is present, speaking, and I just crucified him.
  3. Easter must be seen in light of the cross. It must never overshadow Good Friday. They are a packaged deal!
  4. My one hope of not only entering a right relationship with God but also stepping into glory is the same: it’s Christ. It’s always Christ.
  5. For Luther, those who refuse Christ as a curse want their sin removed not in Christ but in themselves.
  6. God is mercy. He was mercy then. He’s mercy now. God showed them His glory, if only a reflection, in the face of Moses.
  7. The firestorm of the Reformation which turned Europe upside-down was not Luther’s doing. It was the Word, and the Spirit working through it.
  8. The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.
  9. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
  10. Christ has received the mark of law that we might be marked with the gospel, with the sign of his holy cross on our heads and hearts as redeemed children of God.
  11. Moses was sent to keep the house in order, but this Child is sent to bring the house home, and you are part of that house, the household of God.