1. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  2. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  3. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.
  4. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  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. If we just say to God, “We don’t get it, please explain,” he will. He will send us a preacher to point us to his words for more clarification.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  11. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  12. 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.