1. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
  2. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  6. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  7. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  8. When the church is a political actor, the gospel doesn’t have the final word.
  9. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  10. It all starts with God; and it all ends with God. He is the alpha and omega of giving and generosity.
  11. A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.
  12. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.