1. You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!
  2. 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.
  3. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
  4. What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?
  5. 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.
  6. The following is an excerpt from “The Christian Life: Cross or Glory” written by Steven A. Hein (1517 Publishing, 2015).
  7. 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.
  8. There is no justification except by faith alone. The radical forgiveness itself puts the old to death and calls forth the new.
  9. The law does not end sin, does not make new beings, it only makes matters worse.
  10. Here’s a little “devotional” for you; some thoughts on Law and Gospel from Gerhard Forde. Drink deep, drink full. These are rich streams of thought.
  11. “Whatever you do, don’t share the Gospel with me?” Those were my exact words to my slightly mystified seminary professor. As he set his coffee down, I could tell that he was holding back in an effort to allow me to process what I was thinking.
  12. Caleb Keith is once again joined by Drs. Jim Nestingen and John Pless for a special recording in Bergen Norway.
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