1. What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
  2. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  3. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  4. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  5. 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.
  6. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  7. 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).
  8. The needs of the people remain the same, but now the people are you and me. We still sin, and that sin causes so many challenges in our lives.
  9. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  10. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  11. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.