1. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  2. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  3. 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.
  4. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  5. 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).
  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. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  8. All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.
  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. It makes perfect sense that the day honoring Jesus' birth would be observed in a decidedly less than refined manner.
  11. To trust in the Lord, the Messiah, the Deliverer, is our salvation and our only hope. Yet he does not trust us to have this “trust” on our own or of our own will.
  12. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.