1. Great things are contained in these seemingly unimportant words: "Behold, your king." Such boundless gifts are brought by this poor and despised king.
  2. It is good to remember that this true story, is also beautiful.
  3. The Lord sees the blood of the Lamb upon us, but does not merely pass over us in mercy. He passes into us by grace.
  4. What grace is this? It’s grace from Christ, who often seizes us when we least expect it, even through the hands of His enemies.
  5. Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.
  6. Edward's goal of teaching his people to know the scriptures and to believe that their salvation depended on Christ is also essential for us today.
  7. Confession is not another ecclesiastical bludgeon but is instead a gift. There we can tell the truth about ourselves, knowing that Christ has only mercy for us in response.
  8. Luther had a living Word from God intended to land squarely among sinners.
  9. God is mercy. He was mercy then. He’s mercy now. God showed them His glory, if only a reflection, in the face of Moses.
  10. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  11. An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.
  12. Aquinas would craft a systematic theology that did with the matter of faith what Aristotle had done with the natural world.