1. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  2. When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
  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. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  5. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  6. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  7. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  8. The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
  9. 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).
  10. 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?
  11. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  12. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.