1. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  5. This is an excerpt from the prologue of “On Any Given Sunday: The Story of Christ in the Divine Service” by Mike Berg (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  6. This is an excerpt from the introduction of “Common Places in Christian Theology: A Curated Collection of Essays from Lutheran Quarterly,” edited by Mark Mattes (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  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. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  10. A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
  11. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.