1. Christ's words of exclusive salvation are not just a warning but a sure promise for you.
  2. How can we be sure that we are getting a “solid spiritual diet” and not a “milky” one?
  3. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  4. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  5. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  6. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  7. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  8. Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
  9. 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.
  10. 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).
  11. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.