1. My one hope of not only entering a right relationship with God but also stepping into glory is the same: it’s Christ. It’s always Christ.
  2. 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.
  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. For Luther, those who refuse Christ as a curse want their sin removed not in Christ but in themselves.
  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. The firestorm of the Reformation which turned Europe upside-down was not Luther’s doing. It was the Word, and the Spirit working through it.
  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. The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.
  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. 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.
  11. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!