1. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  2. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  3. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  4. 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.
  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. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
  7. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  8. 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).
  9. This is an excerpt from the introduction of “Common Places in Christian Theology: A Curated Collection of Essays from Lutheran Quarterly,” edited by Mark Mattes (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  10. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  11. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.