1. There is power in the name of Jesus, and we love to manipulate power for our own ends.
  2. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  3. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
  4. Through Martin Luther, God would unleash a far greater storm than the one which overwhelmed Luther on July 2, 1505.
  5. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord.
  6. Christian mercy should not seek its own. It must be round, and open its eyes and look at all alike, friend and foe, as our heavenly Father does.
  7. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  8. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.
  9. When the Law is viewed in its true light, when its "glory" is revealed, it is found to do nothing more than to kill man and sink him into condemnation.
  10. Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
  11. The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
  12. 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.