1. 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.
  2. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  3. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  4. The testimony of every son and daughter of God is, God has brought us through.
  5. 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).
  6. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  7. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.
  8. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  9. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  10. 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).
  11. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  12. 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.