1. Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
  2. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  3. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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).
  7. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  8. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  9. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  10. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  11. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  12. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.