1. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  2. One word from one God says it all to our tired hearts.
  3. 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.
  4. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  5. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  6. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  7. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  8. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  9. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  10. 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.
  11. 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).