Forgiveness (368)
  1. Absolution is the word God speaks to cause his sin-dead creation to live.
  2. Those called out for their sins, who find themselves knee deep in their transgressions, always need grace.
  3. It’s God’s love that sets us free to love in the first place.
  4. God has a strange delivery system, the foolish preaching of the cross and foolish preachers for Christ’s sake delivering it.
  5. If sin is only a matter of “doing,” then “undoing” and/or “redoing” would serve as the equivalent savior necessary to find redemption.
  6. Jesus lives to intercede. So we needn’t bring him our feigned righteousness or our faux rehabilitation.
  7. If we want to see evidence of our Father’s answer to the fifth petition, we need only to look at the cross and the empty tomb.
  8. It’s not the disciples’ faith that invented the resurrection but the resurrection that gave birth to the disciples’ faith.
  9. 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?”
  10. "A Lutheran Toolkit" is available for purchase today from 1517 Publishing
  11. Is it cooler to think there is a grand secret conspiracy based on human trafficking or that human trafficking happens far more often and far more normally than we are comfortable with? And how did we create a culture that produced Marilyn Manson and is simultaneously shocked and offended by him? Oh yeah, we are really all idiots incapable of running our own lives let alone the world!
  12. For God to shine his face upon us is the same as saying, “Christ Jesus is with us.”
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