1. Forgiveness is ours, Luther continually proclaimed, because Christ has put His claim on our sins and taken them as His own to the Cross and into His tomb.
  2. The homiletical task of diminishing and debilitating mistrust begins, at every part of preaching, with the preacher.
  3. Undershepherds of our shepherd go rejoicing as sheep among the lambs entrusted to us into God’s everlasting sheep pen, no shabby place to spend forever.
  4. We encounter the triune God in various ways and unexpected places, at countless moments of our daily lives.
  5. 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.
  6. What preacher’s 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.
  7. Sermons begin with an audience of one, me. But, preaching to oneself is always dangerous.
  8. Do we honestly believe what we tell our hearers really makes any significant difference in the coming week for them?
  9. Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance pours patience and hope into the way we think and the way we experience life.
  10. Each day gives us occasion to die to our sinful identities of all kinds and to live out a life in Christ’s footsteps as children of God.
  11. Golgotha is the point where not only Mary and John’s family life assumed a new character, but it is the point of orientation for all human community that uses the cross to straighten out the lives of individuals turned in upon themselves.
  12. The cross does not remain on a hill far away. It pursues us into the valleys, the ravines, the crevices in which we get trapped as we wander in search of a fixed point for our lives.
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