1. 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.
  2. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  3. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  4. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  5. 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). Now available for purchase.
  6. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  7. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  8. That great truth of creedal Christianity – that God is man in Christ – is not set forth for our speculative enjoyment.
  9. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  10. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  11. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?