By Donavon Riley

07/08/25

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Only Christ, Not OnlyFans

We don’t flinch at sin. We speak Christ into it.

Daniel Emery Price

07/07/25

What Makes a Saint: A Saint is a Sinner

One might say that the first statement of the Reformation was that a saint never stops repenting.

Ken Sundet Jones

07/04/25

Freedom Beyond Strength and Wisdom

Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.

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Donavon Riley

02/10/21

Liberated to be Excitedly Ordinary

We can celebrate what others consider mundane and ordinary because it's miraculous. After all, it's God-given.

Katie Koplin

02/03/21

What Do I Have to Give?

Regardless of my experience, my talents, or even my mood, it’s these gifts of Christ that I have to give away. They are all I have, and they are everything.

Donavon Riley

02/02/21

A Christian is Pulled Between Two Extremes

Our anxiety about the future is a consequence of our old self’s attempts to achieve freedom for himself apart from Christ Jesus.

Sarah Crowder

01/18/21

Receiving a New Name: Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom and reconciliation were significant themes for both of the Martin Luthers.

Gretchen Ronnevik

01/14/21

The Secret to Growing Your Faith

In our transactional view of our faith - “If I don’t… then God won’t.” “I need to, so God can” - we are seriously underestimating who we are dealing with.

Robert Kolb

01/10/21

He Doesn’t Make Things Like We’re Used To

God makes all things new. He refashions us from those turned in upon ourselves, turned to idols of our own choice and making, to experience the freedom He gives by pronouncing us His righteous children.

Bror Erickson

01/08/21

When Salt Loses it's Taste

Good works do not give us a righteousness that exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees. Rather, good works result from righteousness given by the good work of the Righteous One on the cross.

Martin Luther

01/01/21

Our Sufficiency is From God

Any good work we perform among you; any doctrine we write upon your heart – that is God’s own work.

Bruce Hillman

12/30/20

Inspiration from Mr. Rogers about Coping with a Pandemic

Fred Rogers did not teach children how to live through a pandemic, but he had many profound things to say about loving our neighbors and finding our identity in that calling.

Robert Kolb

12/27/20

Silvester and Year’s End in Pandemic

As we close out an old year, Saint Silvester can remind us God is the Lord of history and He has used and is using even people whose lives sink largely or totally into obscurity to keep the confession of our faith in Jesus Christ alive.

John T. Pless

12/20/20

It’s Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas: Revisiting Martin Luther’s Christmas Book

Luther’s Christmas sermons remind us that unless Christ is proclaimed FOR YOU, He is not preached.

Donavon Riley

12/08/20

The Message of Advent Never Changes

The proclamation of Christ's coming is for all people, at all times.

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