1. The language of faith speaks promise and persecution, hope and trial, victory and pain. The language of the world may well speak the former, but rarely the latter.
  2. Rest doesn’t come cheap. Perhaps there’s no scarcer commodity in our time. Plenty sell it, but there’s no warranty, and it seldom lasts.
  3. Here, robed in Word and Sacrament, is your King, infant though He be, come out of eternity into time to bring you out of time and into eternity.
  4. Our children are not our own, but even more, our children are born in need. They are sinful, from conception and from birth.
  5. You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.

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