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. Instead of a death sentence, those brothers hear the words of deliverance.
  4. I have to believe that grace - God’s grace - will be waiting on the other side.
  5. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  6. 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.
  7. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  8. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  9. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  10. 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.
  11. Patrick's breakthrough came when he began to leverage his knowledge of the native language and customs to build a bridge between Irish lore and the Christian mythos.