1. Seek moments of silence, and use them to listen and ponder.
  2. Christianity doesn’t start with our speculation about God. It starts with God’s self-revelation.
  3. Christ did not merely urge humanity to be kind. He embodied perfect kindness by giving his life for those who neither earned nor expected such a gift.
  4. Wade Johnston, Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis: MO, 2025.
  5. This ancient “tale of two mothers” concerns far more than theological semantics—it is the difference between a God who sends and a God who comes.

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