1. This article comes to us from 1517 guest contributor, Karen Stenberg.
  2. Only when we’re ready to accept the impossibility of human perfection can we move beyond the paralyzing myth that we are capable of anything good apart from Christ.
  3. Jesus comes to you. He binds your wounds, and he pours out his body and his blood for the forgiveness of your sins.
  4. Here is someone to love; they’re not a Christian. They’re not very clean and don’t seem to care. Love them. Let your life become intertwined with theirs. Let it cost you something.
  5. The law is good and holy but so often when we are “shoulding” on one another, we actually are just going to end up “burning” each other’s fields.
  6. By his initiative alone, he remakes our hearts to love him and others unselfishly.
  7. In Christ, we live beneath an open heaven having the definitive proof in the cross of Christ that God is outrageously for us, not against us.
  8. We all know what I think (maybe) Rachel knows: Celebrating ourselves isn’t enough. It won’t ever be enough.
  9. Now, if there were another way to heaven, doubtless, he would have made it known to us.
  10. It’s God’s love that sets us free to love in the first place.
  11. "Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing" by Michael Berg is now available for purchase
  12. This is an excerpt from Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing written by Michael Berg (1517 Publishing, 2021). Available for purchase this Tuesday!