1. Both these words, Law and Gospel, are from God. The sinner needs both of them. Both are true and good.
  2. Psalm 51 teaches two things: mercy and sin. But aren’t we already experts in sin? Why do we need God to teach it to us?
  3. Galatians 5 isn’t a move beyond Christ to the Christian life. Galatians 5 is the Christian life in Christ.
  4. It’s been my experience that All Saints’ Day, celebrated on November 1st and observed on the first Sunday following, gets overshadowed by the celebration of Reformation Day.
  5. Only because He is an outsider can he afford the costly fee insiders could never afford no matter how hard they work.
  6. I told him that God does not have two types of sheep. God does not have a fold of black, and another white. God only has a fold made up entirely of black sheep because He knows the truth about us.
  7. We should take great care in observing how the psalmist relates to God. Our eyes and hearts should be open to seeing what the psalmist appeals to and how he addresses God.
  8. Without the “simul” distinction, theology lapses into moralism.
  9. If we get past Sunday School moralizing what do we discover in the Old Testament?
  10. The little psychologist within us is often hard at work to pinpoint the origin of life’s problems.
  11. Whenever I read the Genesis account of Abraham, I’m more impressed that he’s often a clumsy, mess of a man than that it’s “faith that’s accounted to him as righteousness.”
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