Confession and Absolution (127)
  1. When the Holy Spirit is at work in the office of the holy ministry, the man is ridden by the Spirit and so his only concern is for preaching the Gospel, baptizing, absolving, and feeding sinners in the Name of Christ Jesus.
  2. A confessing church is a church more worried about souls than appearances, family lines, or institutional bottom-lines.
  3. We pray for God to deliver us from ourselves. To forgive us, for Jesus’s sake, when we do evil.
  4. Jesus is many things. He’s an example. He’s a teacher. He’s a great thinker and philosopher. But He’s also so much more, and He’s one thing above all else: He is Jesus, Savior.
  5. A single, fifteen minute sermon that proclaims Christ and him crucified for you is more important than hundreds of hours of lectures by experts on revitalizing your ministry.
  6. The preacher does not merely send out the raven. From the pulpit flies forth the dove of the Gospel.
  7. It is the strangest of morgues—people arrive dead as doornails and leave alive.
  8. In his Gospel account, Luke challenges us to play "Where is Jesus?"
  9. Sometimes we try be the bad god, sometimes the good god, oftentimes a freaky hybrid of both. The result is the same: Jesus the savior just gets in our way.
  10. If the devil took over a church, I suspect it would be bursting at the seams every Sunday, with smiling faces, clean noses, straight morals, conservative voting, institutional fidelity
  11. Although I was too young to have mastered the skill of lying, I also knew that I couldn’t tell this woman the truth.
  12. He lavishly pours out His rest in the waters of Baptism, in the spoken words of absolution from the pastor’s lips, in the preaching of the cross and resurrection, in the consumption of heavenly cuisine from the table at which He is host and meal.
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