1. Walther’s living legacy is his enduring teaching on how to distinguish the law and the gospel in the Church’s proclamation.
  2. The only way to change the current state of worship songwriting and production is to create something different.
  3. How can we be sure that we are getting a “solid spiritual diet” and not a “milky” one?
  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. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
  7. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  8. 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).
  9. 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).
  10. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  11. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.