1. 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.
  2. Sometimes it’s important to go far away to learn of holy places back home.
  3. Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.
  4. When we own up to our sin, our Father is not scandalized, and his response is not to reconsider his calling us.
  5. 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.
  6. There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.
  7. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  8. You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.
  9. 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.
  10. Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
  11. 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.
  12. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!