1. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  2. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  3. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  4. 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).
  5. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  6. You are not alone if you find it difficult to wrap your mind around the auspices of the Old Testament sacrificial system.
  7. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  8. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  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. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  11. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  12. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.