1. 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.
  2. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  3. 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).
  4. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  5. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  6. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  7. This is an excerpt from the prologue of “On Any Given Sunday: The Story of Christ in the Divine Service” by Mike Berg (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  8. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  9. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  10. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  11. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  12. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.