1. 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.
  2. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  3. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  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. Only by accurately and honestly reporting the views of those with whom we disagree can we then properly address and refute them. This is the approach Solberg has taken.
  7. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  8. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  9. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  10. 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.
  11. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  12. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.