1. God has a strange delivery system, the foolish preaching of the cross and foolish preachers for Christ’s sake delivering it.
  2. Jesus lives to intercede. So we needn’t bring him our feigned righteousness or our faux rehabilitation.
  3. Apathy, melancholy, and disillusionment plague the footsteps of the up-and-coming generations more than ever, especially in the realm of religion, and it’s worth asking, “Why?”
  4. The Thinking Fellows talk about Luther’s breakdown and examples of confession in the Small Catechism.
  5. Advent is not a call to prepare to engage in a transaction with God.
  6. Christ urges us to love our neighbor as He loved us, forgiving all of their sins - giving them the absolving, shirt-pulling, embrace that we would also want.
  7. Jesus does not seek out Peter to condemn, but to restore his precious lost sheep, His dearly loved prodigal son.
  8. Sometimes the guilt in us manifests itself in different ways. Whether it's a weight or sadness, anger or venting, blame or defensiveness, we see it in ourselves and we see it in our relationships.
  9. It’s easy to slip into thinking about forgiveness solely in terms of our authority over it.
  10. Because Jesus sacrificed Himself for us sinners, God calls us to open the door of our junk rooms and receive His forgiveness.
  11. Character development? Change? Saying that it’s behind you? Yeah right. You’re just saying that because you want your nice polished image back. You haven’t changed. We know. We’ve got the receipts.
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