1. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  2. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  3. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  4. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  5. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  6. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
  7. The gospel's message is the scandalous announcement that Yahweh has stooped to our frame, to where we are.
  8. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  9. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  10. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  11. To trust in the Lord, the Messiah, the Deliverer, is our salvation and our only hope. Yet he does not trust us to have this “trust” on our own or of our own will.
  12. A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.