1. As Luther said, “Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf of spring.”
  2. Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
  3. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  4. Church historians attempt to determine why Melanchthon made those controversial decisions.
  5. This is an excerpt from chapter 9 of “What Can Really Know?: The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding” by David Andersen (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  6. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  7. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  8. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  9. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  10. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  11. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.