1. 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.
  2. 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.
  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. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  5. The needs of the people remain the same, but now the people are you and me. We still sin, and that sin causes so many challenges in our lives.
  6. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  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. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  12. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.