1. How can we be sure that we are getting a “solid spiritual diet” and not a “milky” one?
  2. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  3. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  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. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  6. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  7. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  8. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  9. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  10. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  11. Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
  12. God resolves his wrath through the unexpected giving of his Son.