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. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  3. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.
  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. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  6. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  7. 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.
  8. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  9. All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.
  10. Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
  11. Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
  12. We assert, we herald, the truth about God becoming King of the world in and through Jesus of Nazareth alone. It is our public announcement.