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. One word from one God says it all to our tired hearts.
  4. Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
  5. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  9. 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).
  10. Only by accurately and honestly reporting the views of those with whom we disagree can we then properly address and refute them. This is the approach Solberg has taken.
  11. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  12. 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?