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. By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
  3. 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).
  4. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  5. The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.
  6. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  7. 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.
  8. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  9. 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.
  10. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  11. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  12. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.