1. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
  2. God's faithfulness is constant and consistent. It knows no season. His love for us doesn't fade with the summer sun.
  3. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  4. May you believe, in this thin-line world, that this Jesus is for you, not against you.
  5. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  6. 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).
  7. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  8. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
  9. Paul thinks the consequences of Christ not being raised are worse for those who believe than those who never did if it were to be true Christ was not raised.
  10. If it’s all a fiction spun by disappointed disciples, if it’s a mere symbol for the idea of an inner awakening, if it’s not a fact that Christ has been raised, then our grief and loss have no end, and we have no hope.
  11. 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?
  12. This week we are taking a closer look at 1 Corinthians 15:14-19 and what we lose if Christ has not been raised from the dead.