One great thing about our post-denominational age is that it has opened up opportunities to make common cause with other Lutherans who, despite their differences and eccentricities, can agree on some of the most important things.
Pride builds identities that leave no room for grace.
We can willingly admit the fact that we're just like tax collectors and thieves.

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In normal human relationships, when reconciliation is necessary, we place the burden on the person who did wrong, who disrupted the relationship.
How’s your ticker?
God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
An Analysis of Galatians 5:1-6
How the ancient view of "guts" is a lively metaphor of promise
God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
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).
Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.