Let us live by walking with Jesus, so that our Neo-Pagan neighbors, the witch, and frankly a lot of us Christians, can put down our crystals, our superstitions, our vision boards, and our bound sage in order to live out a liturgy of life, with rituals, practices, and behaviors that reflect who we are as followers of Christ.
08/17/26
As Jesus hung on the cross there would be no last second escape. No Greek goddess would swoop in to rescue him. He suffered alone. And yet even in that suffering he declared his victory on the spiritual battlefield to be your victory.
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08/14/26
God can handle grief, rage, and cries for justice. God can handle the victim who cannot yet forgive. God can handle the prayer that comes out jagged and wounded. The good news is that God is holy and merciful enough to handle all our prayers.
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10/22/18
The devil isn’t a popular subject nowadays. The argument is made that we’ve progressed as a culture.
10/22/18
The biblical response to suffering, to recognizing that things are not as they ought to be, is lament.
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10/19/18
The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Theology of the Cross: Reflections on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation written by Steve Paulson and edited by Kelsi Klembara and Caleb Keith (1517 Publishing, 2018).
10/17/18
Finally, we draw near the end of this three-part article on Revelation 1:10-20.
10/17/18
It is only when individuals are bound together in community that they become fully human.
10/16/18
I am often haunted by my past. I am daily haunted by what I should be doing.
10/16/18
Jesus’ forgiveness will not collapse. Jesus’ forgiveness will take us places our legs can’t take us.
10/15/18
The thing seems incredible, and I would not have believed it myself, nor have understood Paul’s words here, had I not witnessed it with my own eyes and experienced it.
10/12/18
Let’s take a walk together. And as we do, I’ll tell you a mystery.
10/12/18
But these good works aren’t done under compulsion. They’re done freely. They aren’t done so that God will love us. They’re done because He loves us.
10/11/18
She said, “Keep coming back, and you’ll know joy.” He wanted to vomit a rainbow of resentment, bitterness, and loathing all over her faux-leather boots.
10/10/18
The white hair of Jesus’ head teaches us that the Gospel is an ancient mystery.
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