1. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  2. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  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. 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. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
  6. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  7. You are not alone if you find it difficult to wrap your mind around the auspices of the Old Testament sacrificial system.
  8. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  9. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  10. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  11. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  12. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.