1. The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
  2. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  6. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  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. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?
  10. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  11. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  12. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.