1. Luther's September Testament not only shaped the reformers’ theology but also was as big an influence on the German language as Shakespeare was for English.
  2. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  3. Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
  4. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.
  5. 1517 would not exist without the leadership, friendship, and faithfulness of Pastor Ron Hodel.
  6. 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.
  7. God is often hidden in history, even as we make it now, but He is always manifest where He has promised to be.
  8. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  9. If God ever forgives you, it is not just allowing you to start over and try harder the second time, but it is a whole, new, complete justification that is given as a free gift and without any work of our own—outside the law.
  10. 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.
  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.