1. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  2. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  3. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  4. Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
  5. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  6. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  7. 1517 would not exist without the leadership, friendship, and faithfulness of Pastor Ron Hodel.
  8. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  9. God saves us through people. He saves us through means. He puts a voice on the gospel.
  10. If God ever forgives you, it is not just allowing you to start over and try harder the second time, but it is a whole, new, complete justification that is given as a free gift and without any work of our own—outside the law.