1. Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.
  2. 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.
  3. This is the patient love of God. He is stubborn about the salvation of sinners. He will not be rushed even if his name is mocked, and the trustworthiness of his promises are called into question.
  4. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  5. Only in Christ has God taken upon himself the worst that could ever happen between God and man: he has allowed himself to be rejected.
  6. The language of faith speaks promise and persecution, hope and trial, victory and pain. The language of the world may well speak the former, but rarely the latter.
  7. Mephibosheth’s story is a living parable of the gospel. It reeks of redemption, demonstrating precisely what Christ does for even the chiefest of sinners.
  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. 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
  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.