1. The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
  2. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  3. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  4. One word from one God says it all to our tired hearts.
  5. Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
  6. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  7. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  8. May you believe, in this thin-line world, that this Jesus is for you, not against you.
  9. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  10. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  11. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  12. 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).