1. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  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. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  5. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  6. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  7. 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.
  8. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.
  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.