1. Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”
  2. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  3. There is no justification by the works of the law
  4. Any message other than "Christ for you" is not good news.
  5. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  6. How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise
  7. Every Christian should understand what it means to have a Great High Priest
  8. Jesus is always interceding for us
  9. If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
  10. Today is Pastor Bo Giertz birthday. This is an excerpt from Bo Giertz’ novel, With My Own Eyes, translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2017).
  11. This is an excerpt from Faith in the Face of Tyranny: An Examination of the Bethel Confession Proposed by Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Hermann Sasse in August 1933, written by Torbjörn Johansson and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  12. This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).