1. Edward's goal of teaching his people to know the scriptures and to believe that their salvation depended on Christ is also essential for us today.
  2. Confession is not another ecclesiastical bludgeon but is instead a gift. There we can tell the truth about ourselves, knowing that Christ has only mercy for us in response.
  3. Luther had a living Word from God intended to land squarely among sinners.
  4. God is mercy. He was mercy then. He’s mercy now. God showed them His glory, if only a reflection, in the face of Moses.
  5. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  6. An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.
  7. Aquinas would craft a systematic theology that did with the matter of faith what Aristotle had done with the natural world.
  8. 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.
  9. Not only does Scripture command us to maintain purity of doctrine and practice, it also commands us to reconcile with our brother, to seek to end division, and recognize common ground where there is common ground.
  10. 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.
  11. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
  12. You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.