1. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  2. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  3. When you see the year ending, thank the Lord, because he had led you into this cycle of years.
  4. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  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. Mary’s virginity has to do with the story of a jackass king, two growling enemies, a young lady, and a big, bad Assyrian dog.