1. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  2. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
  3. We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
  4. In the Reformation, as in the tabernacle, God gave skill, artistry, and craftsmanship to put his Word in images so that through art, his Word would be revealed.
  5. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  6. It seems to me that our greatest task is not that of seeking skills and methods whereby we can inject power into the gospel, but simply to beware lest we obscure the power that the gospel is
  7. Jesus remakes us, rebuilds us, and resurrects us so the demons that hide in the cracks cannot get ahold of us, the devil cannot break us, and hell will never know us.
  8. Luther's September Testament not only shaped the reformers’ theology but also was as big an influence on the German language as Shakespeare was for English.
  9. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.