1. If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
  2. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
  3. God's Son comes to deal with the infestation of sin, but in an unforeseen twist of grace, he’s the only one who goes under the knife.
  4. God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.
  5. God excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.
  6. On May 2nd, Cantate Sunday, in the year 1507, Luther celebrated his first Mass.
  7. To give us God’s name, the name that is above every name, Christ gave us the exact words to say at baptism: the name of the triune God who is three persons, one God: “I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
  8. We cannot love first. Therefore God comes, takes hold of the heart, and says: "Learn to know me."
  9. God is often hidden in history, even as we make it now, but He is always manifest where He has promised to be.
  10. Edward's goal of teaching his people to know the scriptures and to believe that their salvation depended on Christ is also essential for us today.
  11. God is not a preoccupied parent, he’s an invested and interested tender loving Father. He values what perplexes us.