1. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  2. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  3. The Jews were living the script for a Western movie when Jesus showed up. The enemies of God were running the town
  4. Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
  5. If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
  6. God’s published will offers us anchorage, the anchorage of Jesus Christ, in the midst of chaos, reminding us that there is a greater purpose to our lives than the pursuit of worldly success or fleeting pleasures.
  7. The existence of aliens can not negate the promise given to us by God courtesy of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  8. If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
  9. Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
  10. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  11. 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.