1. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of these early Lutheran hymns – and their physical availability in hymnals – in the piety of common people living in Lutheran towns and territories.
  2. The Battle of Frankenhausen stands as a warning for what can happen when we abandon the Word God has given us and chase after some vision of our own imaginations.
  3. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  4. God chose Russell Brand, chose to defy his fast-escaping life and drink up all his swift-running sin in the River Thames.
  5. The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.
  6. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  7. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  8. Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
  9. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  10. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  11. The love of God in Christ Jesus never changes. That love is for you.
  12. Rod Rosenbladt, the encourager of all things good, true, and beautiful and a tireless warrior for Jesus and the Gospel message, finally rests at the marriage feast of the lamb.