1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
  4. 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.
  5. God excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.
  6. I wanted the devotions of this book to be a source of strength for everyone who has waited all night to see the sun come up again.
  7. The God who abundantly restores is still in the business of total restoration, even today. Even now the God of heaven restores dead sinners to life.
  8. Every part of Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene in John 20 was incredibly intentional and personal for God to systematically redeem what was lost.
  9. On May 2nd, Cantate Sunday, in the year 1507, Luther celebrated his first Mass.
  10. 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.”
  11. Hamilton writes lucidly. He has that rare gift of walking the tightrope between the academy and the church, being able to communicate to both groups in the same book.
  12. We cannot love first. Therefore God comes, takes hold of the heart, and says: "Learn to know me."