Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. It can get ahold of a person and turn him all the way in on himself. What seemed a brief reflection lingers for hours, days, weeks, even years.

We can take comfort in the knowledge that He kills the sinner so we can get a new shot at life and life eternal.

We're going to worry about what people think of us. It's going to get in the way of our relationship with Jesus. We're going to fear God's judgment. But, we're also baptized into Christ. So we don't give up hope. Jesus will help us and strengthen us. He will guide us in his Baptismal grace and peace.

Without the “simul” distinction, theology lapses into moralism.

If we get past Sunday School moralizing what do we discover in the Old Testament?

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.”

No matter how great our efforts or how righteous our intent, we will go from troubled to scared, and scared to terrified, unless we are sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb.

God goes to work on us through His Word like a woodcarver chisels a block of wood.

We can leave all the stuff of life behind, because our great treasure God flaunts before the world on Calvary.