Christianity doesn’t start with our speculation about God. It starts with God’s self-revelation.
Christ did not merely urge humanity to be kind. He embodied perfect kindness by giving his life for those who neither earned nor expected such a gift.
Wade Johnston, Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis: MO, 2025.

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Senkbeil is a pastor’s pastor, a master of the art of pastoral care.
Luther’s final thoughts were not meant to bum you out or lead you to despair.
Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
The tragedy of the incidental Christ I was raised with is that he was really no Savior at all.
The one true God has revealed himself as the answer to the longings of every human heart. The search has ended. He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Holy, Holy, Holy.
What does it mean that holding to Jesus’ teaching will set us free? Which teaching? What will we be set free from?
Solomon did not write Ecclesiastes to bum you out. He wrote it to set you free.
To understand the meaning of the Pentecost miracle for the life of a Christian, we must first learn to see it through the lens of the history that came before it.
Jesus reminds us of God’s mercy to the helpless, snakebitten children of Israel, then connects that story to him being lifted up on a cross to rescue an entire human race that is snakebitten by sin.