Gerhard Forde (29)
  1. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  2. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
  3. We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
  4. God has found a way to be God even for the likes of us. He has found a way to save sinners.
  5. You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!
  6. 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.
  7. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
  8. What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?
  9. Forde’s work testifies to the liveliness and vitality of confessional Lutheranism, and its promise for the continuing need to preach Christ crucified in this, and every, age until the Lord’s return.
  10. The following is an excerpt from “The Christian Life: Cross or Glory” written by Steven A. Hein (1517 Publishing, 2015).
  11. Maybe for the first time you can begin to receive creation as a gift, a sheer gift from God’s hands. And who knows what might happen in the power of this grace? All possibilities are open.
  12. There is no justification except by faith alone. The radical forgiveness itself puts the old to death and calls forth the new.
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