1. 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.
  2. The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
  3. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  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. If it’s all a fiction spun by disappointed disciples, if it’s a mere symbol for the idea of an inner awakening, if it’s not a fact that Christ has been raised, then our grief and loss have no end, and we have no hope.
  6. 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).
  7. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  8. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  9. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  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. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.