1. Lutherans have a unique heritage that makes teaching predestination doubly difficult.
  2. This is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Your God is Too Glorious: Finding God in the Most Unexpected Places by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  3. Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.
  4. 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.
  5. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  6. God chose Russell Brand, chose to defy his fast-escaping life and drink up all his swift-running sin in the River Thames.
  7. Elsewhere makes promises that can’t be kept, but God’s promises are secure, reliable, and certain.
  8. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  9. A Christian story untethered from the reality of Christ and his mercy toward sinners becomes a mere fable, while a sermon disconnected from the hearts of its listeners remains a hollow oratory.
  10. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  11. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  12. Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”