1. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  3. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  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. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  6. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  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. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  10. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  11. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  12. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.