1. Even though the horn of plenty on our table is there as the fruit of our labor, that is also a gift of God’s grace
  2. The place where it is most difficult for us to accept God’s will is when suffering, calamities, and finally, death itself.
  3. The kingdom of God has a proper name, and his name is Jesus, Son of God, Son of Man.
  4. Our prayer confesses that God’s abode is beyond us, yet ever so near for the prayer presupposes that we are being heard, even in our sighs and whispers.
  5. This is an excerpt from “A Lutheran Toolkit” written by Ken Sundet Jones (1517 Publishing, 2021), pgs. 23-25.
  6. The kingdom of Christ consists in finding all our praise and boast in grace. Other works should be free, not to be urged, nor should we wish by them to become Christians, but condescend with them to our neighbor.
  7. Any good work we perform among you; any doctrine we write upon your heart – that is God’s own work.
  8. St John of the Cross' feast day on December 14 commemorates the day of his death in 1591, at the height of the Catholic renewal movement that followed the Reformation.
  9. In a year in which every day seems to blur together, Luther's orders of daily prayer help order our daily lives.
  10. Because everything we possess, and everything in heaven and on earth besides, is daily given, sustained, and protected by God, it inevitably follows that we are in duty bound to love, praise, and thank him without ceasing