This is an excerpt from chapter 9 of What Can Really Know?: The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding by David Andersen (1517 Publishing, 2023).

The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.

God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.

How often do we miss God’s work as God’s work in our own lives? 

God is the end of living, the destination, the point of it all.

Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.

The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.

Walther’s living legacy is his enduring teaching on how to distinguish the law and the gospel in the Church’s proclamation.

God doesn't need your worship, but you do.

Judas’ sins helped Jesus to the cross; our sins held Him there. Judas was a horse. Peter was a horse. I’m a horse. You’re a horse.