Why Christian Tradition? Why the Supper
By Donavon Riley
03/06/26
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Why Christian Tradition? Why the Supper

The Supper doesn’t depend on the faithfulness of the Church. It depends on the faithfulness of Christ.
Getting Over Your “Right” Theology
Luke Kjolhaug
Luke Kjolhaug
03/05/26

Getting Over Your “Right” Theology

A rightly-oriented heart and a rightly-oriented love will consistently do what is best for God and best for our neighbor, which is why St. Augustine speaks of sin as a disordered love.
Life through Death According to Bonhoeffer
Sam P. Schuldheisz
Sam P. Schuldheisz
03/03/26

Life through Death According to Bonhoeffer

For Bonhoeffer, Christ crucified, and the cross of the Christian life were not of peripheral importance, but foundational.

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Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
07/05/24

The Mystery of Divine Descent

It is Jesus himself who is the ladder by which sinners get to God, not by them climbing up but by God climbing down.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
06/28/24

Defining Worship Through Creatureliness

To embrace our creatureliness is to affirm the truth that we were created to worship.
Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
06/27/24

Rethinking the Robber

This is an excerpt from chapter 6 of Scandalous Stories by Daniel Emery Price and Erick Sorensen (1517 Publishing 2018).
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
06/24/24

Unshakable Hope

If your faith is rooted in the gospel of Zion, in the good news of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection on your behalf, you are already a member of the “heavenly Jerusalem”
Erick Sorensen
Erick Sorensen
06/13/24

The Gift of Failure

Success is emphatically not your primary identity.
Adam Francisco
Adam Francisco
06/03/24

The Basis and Basics of Christian Apologetics

If you are a Christian, you already have what you need to give a reason for the hope within you. That reason, though, is not you.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
05/27/24

A Meal That Never Ends

We can do nothing to warrant entry into the kingdom of God nor are we getting in if we think a seat at God’s table is something to which we are entitled.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
05/22/24

A Hinge Between Addict-life and Christ-life

Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
05/21/24

Forgiveness That Can't Be Contained

Instead of a death sentence, those brothers hear the words of deliverance.
Gage Jordan
Gage Jordan
05/14/24

In The Wild: Church for Those People

The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
05/13/24

The Day Russell Brand Was Filled with The Holy Breath

God chose Russell Brand, chose to defy his fast-escaping life and drink up all his swift-running sin in the River Thames.
Amy Mantravadi
Amy Mantravadi
05/10/24

The Threefold Justification of the Resurrection

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.
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