Waking Up in Post Christendom
By Adam Francisco
05/14/26
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Waking Up in Post Christendom

The temptation for many believers is either despair or outrage: despair that Christendom is fading, or outrage at the civilization replacing it.
The Theology of Play and the Joy of Repentance
1517 Guest Contributor
1517 Guest Contributor
05/15/26

The Theology of Play and the Joy of Repentance

Through baptism, absolution, and the Lord’s Supper, Christ meets you with his radical forgiveness which changes everything, even the self!
Don't Sleep On Luther's Early Disputations
Caleb Keith
Caleb Keith
05/11/26

Don't Sleep On Luther's Early Disputations

Do not disregard Luther’s early disputations, but appreciate their specificity and recognize their pastoral and theological continuity with his later works.

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Valerie Thur
Valerie Thur
12/15/20

To Us a Child is Born: Everlasting Father

The well-meaning advice “time heals all wounds” is offensively false when we confront the overwhelming evidence that the constants in our lives are death, taxes, and suffering.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
12/06/20

The Things We Carry to Church

"Come to me, all you who are weary of being you, and simply be mine."
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
12/03/20

The Confession of a Prodigal

Jesus does not seek out Peter to condemn, but to restore his precious lost sheep, His dearly loved prodigal son.
Jay Sawrie
Jay Sawrie
12/02/20

Fear & Fruit Bearing

Bearing fruit is wonderful, but you do not stay a Christian through fruit-bearing. You bear fruit and are growing because you are united to Christ.
Katie Koplin
Katie Koplin
11/27/20

When There's Nothing to be Thankful For

In a year where things are unclear, tensions are heartbreaking, and uncertainty is rampant, what can we be thankful for?
Steven A. Hein
Steven A. Hein
11/26/20

Happy Thanksgiving, Now and Then

We are given, so we give thanks, and we give thanks by giving.
Daniel Stenberg
Daniel Stenberg
11/26/20

What If I’m Not Thankful?

God’s love does not have an off switch. You cannot earn it or deserve it. And your thankfulness for it will not determine if you get it or not.
Katie Koplin
Katie Koplin
11/19/20

Resilient Kids

Life will not go as planned nor as we would hope, but "God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
Jake Allstaedt
Jake Allstaedt
11/19/20

What Did Jesus Look Like?

We stand before God with a unique set of problems, diseases, and sins. The comforting truth of the Incarnation is that Jesus took my flesh. All of it.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
11/17/20

Jesus has Overcome Evil

Jesus overcame sin, death, and Satan on the cross. His bloody suffering and death marked this sinful world's defeat.
Robert Farrar Capon
Robert Farrar Capon
11/16/20

Heaven is Miller Time

Heaven is Miller Time. Heaven is the party in the streaming sunlight of the world’s final afternoon.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
11/05/20

Good Works and Useless Burdens

Good works do not make a Christian, do not secure the grace of God and blot out our sins, they do not merit heaven.
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