Wade Johnston, Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis: MO, 2025.
This ancient “tale of two mothers” concerns far more than theological semantics—it is the difference between a God who sends and a God who comes.
This story points us from our unlikely heroes to the even more unlikely, and joyous, good news that Jesus’ birth for us was just as unlikely and unexpected.

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When your child asks about what we believe, and why we believe it…answer.
Children are not meant to carry crowns. They are not meant to rule. The burden crushes them in slow, invisible ways.
When Jesus ascends, he does so, bearing gifts for you.
The women at the tomb were surprised by Easter. Amazed and filled with wonder at Jesus' Easter eucatastrophe. And so are we.
The goal isn't to give kids a balanced or equal measure of each but to give the right medicine at the right time.
The grain of God’s goodness and grace is made known by many trees throughout the Bible.
Jesus loved us and gave himself up to save us. He would not abandon you to your hurt or cast you away because of the hurt you caused others.
Dr. Montgomery taught me the Christian faith is both a true story and a delightful story—in fact, it is the greatest story ever told.
The point of Revelation is to reveal consolation in Jesus, not to revel in chaos and confusion.
In Christ, this world’s never-children are his always-children, because he isn’t a God of death, after all.
It is your privilege—we may even say “right”—to call upon this Father and to call him Father.
In our catastrophes - whatever they may be, however large or small they are - we cry out for rescue, deliverance, and salvation.