1. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  2. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  3. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  4. 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).
  5. 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.
  6. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  7. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  8. 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.
  9. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  10. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  11. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  12. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.