New Lutheran Quote of the Day

We close our eyes to nothing.  Only faith can have the courage to face it all without blinking, without suppressing or inflating any of the evidence.  A spade is a spade and Jesus is a fig tree Jesus.  Hence, the watchfulness, the sober realism, the bottom-of-it-all confidence that it is the Son of Man before whom we stand, the Son of Man of whom Daniel speaks, the Son of Man who gave His life as a ransom for many, the Son of Man who was lifted up and who cried, 'It is accomplished.' That fact holds through it all. -- Dr. Norman Nagel, Selected Sermons, p. 174.