ARTS AND CULTURE (19)
  1. In the Reformation, as in the tabernacle, God gave skill, artistry, and craftsmanship to put his Word in images so that through art, his Word would be revealed.
  2. When we read a good story, we sojourn with the characters and authors upon the trail of longing. Such is the pilgrim’s path.
  3. Our Lord is not only the King of creation but the King of creativity.
  4. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture echoes with the great songs of salvation that fill our ears, hearts, minds, and mouths with the good news of salvation in Jesus.
  5. This tale of two professors has a common theme, plot, and denouement - the good news of the one true story, Jesus Christ crucified for you.
  6. Christ crucified is at the heart of both our freedom from sin and death and our freedom to serve and love our neighbor.
  7. Every day, in everything we do and experience, we are busy hearing, seeing, and telling stories.
  8. Consolation is the breath of life filling our lungs, hearts, and minds with the fresh, incorruptible air of the new creation.
  9. God is the God of failures, for He became one for you. There is no failure of ours that is bigger than Jesus’ cross, no sin of ours that can overshadow the cross.
  10. Jesus is the great Houdini of the grave for us. And through His death, He gives us the Great Escape from death that leads to the great joy of the Resurrection.
  11. Above all, Luther understood the importance of the Biblical narrative as the story of God’s love and man’s salvation revealed in Christ Crucified.
  12. Recovery helps us see beauty in the ordinary; the miracle and wonder of creation in the oak leaf or the evergreen needle.
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