1. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  2. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  3. Luther's emphasis on the need for sinners to have preachers who can provide them with the comfort and support they need for their faith in Jesus Christ and life is as relevant today as it was in his time.
  4. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  5. Walther’s living legacy is his enduring teaching on how to distinguish the law and the gospel in the Church’s proclamation.
  6. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  7. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  8. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  9. Only by accurately and honestly reporting the views of those with whom we disagree can we then properly address and refute them. This is the approach Solberg has taken.
  10. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
  11. If it’s all a fiction spun by disappointed disciples, if it’s a mere symbol for the idea of an inner awakening, if it’s not a fact that Christ has been raised, then our grief and loss have no end, and we have no hope.