1. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  2. 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.
  3. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  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. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  10. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  11. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  12. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).