A rightly-oriented heart and a rightly-oriented love will consistently do what is best for God and best for our neighbor, which is why St. Augustine speaks of sin as a disordered love.
03/03/26
For Bonhoeffer, Christ crucified, and the cross of the Christian life were not of peripheral importance, but foundational.
03/04/26
While we often talk about our growth, our progress, and what we are doing for the kingdom of God, the reality is that any goodness in a Christian does not originate in us.
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03/06/22
Perhaps this year we shall see Lent reaching more toward Easter and tethered to the resurrection then the economy-car style tradition which simply terminates in Good Friday.
02/27/22
Lent is a gift to the Church from the Church. It belongs to all Christians who desire to be conformed to the likeness of our Lord.
01/24/22
If we think God’s power, love and beauty are reserved merely for the glories of Transfiguration, then we have not understood the Father; we have not understood divine revelation.
01/22/22
Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.
01/08/22
Christ is present in the pure preaching of the gospel. And if Christ is present, then we have entered into the domain of the sacraments.
01/06/22
Meeting the crown prince is one thing; meeting God in the flesh, as the Light of the Gentiles and the Savior of the world is another.
12/29/21
Love turns out to be not simply a thing or action, but a characteristic of God himself.
12/25/21
In preaching, auditors are informed and instructed on hearing the voice of the Other, not themselves or contemporary resonances.
12/17/21
The Advents of Christ (past, present, and future) elicit faith in the word of Christ, confirmed by his presence.
12/01/21
There is no other transitionary event in human history that warrants three full months of focused attention and persistent acknowledgment than the incarnation of the Son of God.
09/26/21
Preaching is the first line of defense and catechetical offensive against these corrosive falsehoods.
08/29/21
Let us move beyond the milk and onto solid food — the meat of biblical, creedal, confessional theology in our preaching.
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