1. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.
  2. 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.
  3. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  4. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  5. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  6. If we just say to God, “We don’t get it, please explain,” he will. He will send us a preacher to point us to his words for more clarification.
  7. The needs of the people remain the same, but now the people are you and me. We still sin, and that sin causes so many challenges in our lives.
  8. This is an excerpt from the introduction of “Common Places in Christian Theology: A Curated Collection of Essays from Lutheran Quarterly,” edited by Mark Mattes (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  9. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  10. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  11. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  12. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.