1. Today, Maundy Thursday, we receive the feast of Christ’s true body and blood for us, for the forgiveness of our sins. All of them.
  2. On this Maundy Thursday, in particular, let the “for you” of Christ’s gifts dominate.
  3. When you are stripped down to nothing, desperate, lowly, you will again know what she knows: the crumbs are enough, Jesus is enough, for you.
  4. Big or small, potential or certain, the despair we may grapple with during this time of year tends to find its end in the fact that things are not as they should be.
  5. Is it possible to celebrate Thanksgiving every time we come together as God’s people as well?
  6. We give thanks to the Father who has made a way for us to sit at his table.
  7. In the Lord’s Thanksgiving Supper, we are not served turkey, green bean casserole, and cornbread. We are served Christ.
  8. Without the sacraments, God’s grace is simply an artifact behind a glass-case in a museum. We might be able to describe and even admire it, but we never get firsthand access to it.
  9. The following several articles of Smalcald are concerned with the application of the Gospel.
  10. Forty-five seconds is about how long I have as a pastor leading a Sunday morning service to sit at the feet of the cross and receive Jesus’ body and blood given to me by the hands of another at the Lord’s Table.
  11. God will give you more than you can handle. But he doesn’t leave you alone. Not at all.
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