1. Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.
  2. On May 2nd, Cantate Sunday, in the year 1507, Luther celebrated his first Mass.
  3. False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.
  4. Sometimes it’s important to go far away to learn of holy places back home.
  5. When we own up to our sin, our Father is not scandalized, and his response is not to reconsider his calling us.
  6. There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.
  7. I finally watched the film “Encanto” with my kids. I had heard many people say the subtext of this movie was deeper than most. So, we snuggled up on the couch and watched it to see what everyone was talking about.
  8. You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.
  9. Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
  10. Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.
  11. Faith should later again flow forth from our heart’s depths to our neighbor freely and unhindered in good works; not that we wish to rest our salvation in them; for God will not have that, but wishes the conscience to rest in himself alone.
  12. As Christians, we rest in the finished work of Christ on the cross, and we yearn for our neighbor to be reconciled to God, to know the peace that we are resting in.