1. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  2. To trust in the Lord, the Messiah, the Deliverer, is our salvation and our only hope. Yet he does not trust us to have this “trust” on our own or of our own will.
  3. A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.
  4. Who is God really? He is offensive, anarchic by the world’s standards, and far too gracious to people who don’t deserve his time or attention.
  5. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  6. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  7. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.