1. We number our days not according to our timeframe but according to God’s work and his rhythms.
  2. God is the end of living, the destination, the point of it all.
  3. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  4. 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.
  5. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  6. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  7. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  8. 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).
  9. Only by accurately and honestly reporting the views of those with whom we disagree can we then properly address and refute them. This is the approach Solberg has taken.
  10. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  11. What if sin was truly removed and what if the one who took it from us had the power to conquer it’s curse and spit in the face of death?