1. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
  2. In the tumultuous sea of information, opinions, and ideologies that break over us each day, we hold fast to the anchor of our faith—Jesus, the true prophet.
  3. The only place to begin a discussion of human/creaturely identity is with our relationship to the God whose breath filled dust, brought us to life, sustains us and gives us a hopeful future.
  4. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  5. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  6. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  7. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  8. This is an excerpt from part two of “On Any Given Sunday: The Story of Christ in the Divine Service” by Mike Berg (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  9. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  10. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  11. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  12. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.