1. You are not alone if you find it difficult to wrap your mind around the auspices of the Old Testament sacrificial system.
  2. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  3. Many people have struggled to understand Leviticus and Old Testament worship in general. Here is a handbook or map to navigate these subjects, and to see their relationship to Christ and his saving work.
  4. 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).
  5. 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).
  6. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  7. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  8. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  9. 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.
  10. A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
  11. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  12. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.