1. This hymn is not for people who feel strong, but those who are weak.
  2. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  3. 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.
  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. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  6. You are not alone if you find it difficult to wrap your mind around the auspices of the Old Testament sacrificial system.
  7. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  8. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  9. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  10. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  11. 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.
  12. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.