1. 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.
  2. One word from one God says it all to our tired hearts.
  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. Luther's emphasis on the need for sinners to have preachers who can provide them with the comfort and support they need for their faith in Jesus Christ and life is as relevant today as it was in his time.
  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. 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).
  9. 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?
  10. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  11. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  12. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.