1. 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.
  2. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  3. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  4. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
  5. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  6. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  7. 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.
  8. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  9. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.