1. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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?
  5. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  6. It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.
  7. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  11. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  12. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.