1. God's Son comes to deal with the infestation of sin, but in an unforeseen twist of grace, he’s the only one who goes under the knife.
  2. Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.
  3. God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.
  4. Both Paul and Martin Luther were Olympic champions when it came to ladder climbing.
  5. God excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.
  6. I wanted the devotions of this book to be a source of strength for everyone who has waited all night to see the sun come up again.
  7. Make no mistake, sinners are in fact being pursued by a most hideous beast called sin, death, and the devil, unleashed and striking continuously.
  8. Nothing stands against you. Only Christ stands now, and he is for you, more for you than you could ever know, for you like nothing else that has ever loved you.
  9. On May 2nd, Cantate Sunday, in the year 1507, Luther celebrated his first Mass.
  10. What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
  11. To give us God’s name, the name that is above every name, Christ gave us the exact words to say at baptism: the name of the triune God who is three persons, one God: “I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
  12. This book is not in your hands so that we can simply commiserate with each other’s difficulties. It is meant to pierce your sin-darkened night with the light of God’s Word.