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  1. The Easter season is designed to cultivate our resurrection thinking throughout the year. When God looks at us each day, He sees us through the lens of Christ’s resurrection. We should look at our lives the same way.
  2. It is precisely from the cross that the glory of God shines most brightly into our lives, as dark and sinister as Golgotha appears from a sinful distance. Cross trumps crisis.
  3. Wrestling alone puts us always at a disadvantage and every wrestling face-off needs a referee. Pastors are called to be such referees for their people.
  4. What preachers deliver to their hearers is not just one or another gift, a present or two that enriches life. Preachers also deliver the very presence of the Lord.
  5. Our trust in Jesus pours contentment into the way we think and the way we experience life.
  6. Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance pours gratitude into the way we think and the way we experience life.
  7. Reconciliation with God affirms the worth of our persons, and it banishes the inhibitions and fears, as well as the resentments and desire for revenge, which create gulches between us and those around us.
  8. This restoration to righteousness that results in our freedom for loving and supporting other people whom God places within our reach takes place, Luther believed, through Christ’s liberating victory over Satan.
  9. We encounter the triune God in various ways and unexpected places, at countless moments of our daily lives.
  10. What does being an undershepherd mean? Do we really want to take on the burdens of being shepherds?
  11. God is placing us in new situations. His unchanging and utterly reliable Word provides our only anchor.
  12. Jesus purifies His own and ends their identification as unfit to appear in His presence or in front of other people as the person we identify as our true self.
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