The Sermons of Gerhard Forde (7)
  1. How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?
  2. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  3. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  4. It is terribly easy to set up our theology as a buffer against the real coming of the Lord and its consequences.
  5. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  6. It seems to me that our greatest task is not that of seeking skills and methods whereby we can inject power into the gospel, but simply to beware lest we obscure the power that the gospel is
  7. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.