Pentecost (75)
  1. We expect God to be at least as fair our society. But that is not how God operates.
  2. Peter asks the kind of question asked by those who keep records, who keep score. Which reminds me that we are a score-keeping people.
  3. Jesus is showing the disciples that humility is not only about how we present ourselves before God. It also has to do with our love and service to the least among us.
  4. Those whose lives matter to Jesus show others how they, too, matter. This is part of the Christian’s evangelical witness, to value the people in our world who feel like they have no value.
  5. Your job on this celebration of the Reformation is to proclaim the promise of God in Christ which justifies, and to help your hearers live like they believe it.
  6. God has all authority. He is the Creator. He is in charge. We are completely at His mercy.
  7. Instead of allowing people to slowly fade, Jesus leads us to take the first step toward bringing them back home.
  8. None have done our duty of forgiving perfectly. We need help, and we do well to ask the One who sent us.
  9. From the beginning of the biblical narrative to the end, God is a God of conversation and community. He speaks and He gathers. That is what God does. That is who God is.
  10. As good as it is to follow the example Jesus, it is even better to listen to the words of Jesus.
  11. Jesus sends all His people, according to their various vocations, to proclaim His praises and to bring comfort and forgiveness to the people around them.
  12. The faithful who gather for worship have heard and believed this promise, and they too are saved. But they need to hear it again.
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