1. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  2. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  3. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  4. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  5. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  6. God gives us the power and authority to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to burdened sinners who entrust us with their pain, guilt, and defeat.
  7. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  8. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  9. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  10. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.
  11. Rejoice with Mary as she would rejoice with you. Be blessed, like her, with humility from God, so that you may serve joyfully and willingly wherever and in whatever role God has placed you.
  12. By his first Advent in the flesh, through his second Advent with bread and wine and water and Word, we await his third Advent at the end.