1. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  2. The lack of history surrounding Psalm 130 allows it to endure as universally appealing even for our seasons of hopelessness and despair when we’re in “the depths.”
  3. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  4. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  5. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  6. God gives his church a story that helps to make sense of this life.
  7. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  8. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  9. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  10. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  11. This week, we’ll take a closer look at what it means to have a God who remembers us. Today, 1517 Scholar in Residence Chad Bird first introduces the Old Testament meaning behind the word and the Hebrew way of remembering.
  12. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.