1. 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).
  2. This week we are taking a closer look at 1 Corinthians 15:14-19 and what we lose if Christ has not been raised from the dead.
  3. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  4. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  5. If we just say to God, “We don’t get it, please explain,” he will. He will send us a preacher to point us to his words for more clarification.
  6. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  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 can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  9. Nothing moves or drives Paul more than preaching about “Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2).
  10. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  11. 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.
  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.