1. How can we be sure that we are getting a “solid spiritual diet” and not a “milky” one?
  2. 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).
  3. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.
  4. This is an excerpt from the prologue of “On Any Given Sunday: The Story of Christ in the Divine Service” by Mike Berg (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  5. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  6. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  7. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  8. The earliest followers of God sang their faith, which is no different today as we sing of the hope we have in Jesus.
  9. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  10. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  11. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  12. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.