1. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  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. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  5. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  6. 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).
  7. 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.
  8. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  9. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  10. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
  11. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  12. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.