1. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  2. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  3. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
  6. 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?
  7. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  8. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  9. It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.
  10. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  11. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  12. I can guarantee you that when Paul was overtaken by the Spirit and inspired to write these words, he did not have in mind your local school's boys' basketball tournament.