1. Aquinas would craft a systematic theology that did with the matter of faith what Aristotle had done with the natural world.
  2. If we think God’s power, love and beauty are reserved merely for the glories of Transfiguration, then we have not understood the Father; we have not understood divine revelation.
  3. Not only does Scripture command us to maintain purity of doctrine and practice, it also commands us to reconcile with our brother, to seek to end division, and recognize common ground where there is common ground.
  4. Here, robed in Word and Sacrament, is your King, infant though He be, come out of eternity into time to bring you out of time and into eternity.
  5. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
  6. You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.
  7. Meeting the crown prince is one thing; meeting God in the flesh, as the Light of the Gentiles and the Savior of the world is another.
  8. Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.
  9. Couldn't Mary and Joseph have used more practical gifts? Why did the magi bring such unusual presents to the Christ Child? And how do these Gentiles fit into this very Jewish part of Matthew's Gospel? Let's ask some Old Testament prophets and poets for the answer.
  10. The church’s song goes on and on, singing and ringing down to us today.
  11. This Christmas season we are thankful that even though we “fallers” are unable to climb up to God, he came down the ladder to us.
  12. While the world and other religions might be fine with considering him everything but, the foremost thing our Jesus came to be and still remains is Jesus, Savior.