1. If we believe that ours is truly the greatest story ever told, then we must share that story in creative ways and allow it to change the desires of its hearers.
  2. Below is a compilation of some of our staff and contributor’s recommended reads for this summer (based, of course, on what we are reading). Let us know if you find a book you love!
  3. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  4. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  5. 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).
  6. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  7. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  8. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  9. 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.
  10. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  11. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  12. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.