1. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
  2. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  3. God gives us the power and authority to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to burdened sinners who entrust us with their pain, guilt, and defeat.
  4. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  5. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  6. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  7. The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.
  8. When the church is a political actor, the gospel doesn’t have the final word.
  9. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
  10. You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
  11. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  12. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.