1. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  2. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  3. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  4. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  5. Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
  6. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  7. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  8. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  9. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  10. 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.
  11. 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).