Emphasis Preaching Journal

Soon after Martin Luther died, his friends discovered that, just before his death, he had written on a scrap of paper, "We are all beggars."

That we have such poverty in common is what makes us equally distant from God.

Luther's last spoken words were reported to be, "You have redeemed me, O God of truth."

That we have such mercy in common is what makes us equally received by God.
- Lintern