1. 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.
  2. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  3. Our hope is God's mercy. It's like a well that never dries up. His mercies were there before he created us. They are present for us today.
  4. Even for idolatrous sellouts like you and me, God’s position has not changed. Even though we may have forgotten him, he never forgets us.
  5. 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.
  6. God's power and works are awesome and cannot be stifled. His grace and mercy will be heard above the growls and howls of those who deny Christ Jesus is God and Savior
  7. 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.
  8. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
  9. You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.