1. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  2. God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
  3. Walther’s living legacy is his enduring teaching on how to distinguish the law and the gospel in the Church’s proclamation.
  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. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that St. Peter wasn’t left outside. He wasn’t left weeping. He was restored, as am I, as are you.
  8. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  9. 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.
  10. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  11. 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.
  12. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.