One great thing about our post-denominational age is that it has opened up opportunities to make common cause with other Lutherans who, despite their differences and eccentricities, can agree on some of the most important things.
Pride builds identities that leave no room for grace.
We can willingly admit the fact that we're just like tax collectors and thieves.

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We can leave all the stuff of life behind, because our great treasure God flaunts before the world on Calvary.
There are many funeral songs I wouldn’t be caught dead singing. Why? Because my funeral will not be about me.
A promise was made to my older brother roughly 50 years ago. He was just an infant and had no idea that this promise was being set upon him.
Why was Jesus crucified? Not to save victims, but to save sinners.
Jesus takes that burden away in the “I forgive you and them” and gives us His “light” burden.
I have my list. It may seem strange to you, but, when I think about my own death, I often think in terms of positive failures.
Faith does not require that we always Hoorah what the Lord does. God wants children, not brown-nosers.
O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus he says to these bones. Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
Should we consider the tomb of Jesus completely empty, or just somewhat empty?
The Lord has a special place in his heart for those whom the world forgets. For the anonymous. For the rejected.
Warning, Remember, O man, that thou art dust… And lust, he mocks in mute self-condemnation.
What is really good for the soul is not so much confession as absolution. If confession is us telling the truth about ourselves to God, then absolution is God telling us a truer truth about ourselves.