1. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  2. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  3. 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.
  4. May you believe, in this thin-line world, that this Jesus is for you, not against you.
  5. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  6. 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.
  7. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  8. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  9. The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
  10. 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).
  11. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  12. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.