1. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  2. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  3. Luther's emphasis on the need for sinners to have preachers who can provide them with the comfort and support they need for their faith in Jesus Christ and life is as relevant today as it was in his time.
  4. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  5. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  6. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  7. The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
  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. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  10. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  11. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  12. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.