God is not a tool in our hands. He does not exist to serve our goals, our metrics, or our platforms.
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03/23/26
The gospel isn’t for the strong but people who know they aren’t.
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03/20/26
One great thing about our post-denominational age is that it has opened up opportunities to make common cause with other Lutherans who, despite their differences and eccentricities, can agree on some of the most important things.
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04/18/17
Put to death by God's Word of Law, we are then raised to new life by God's Word of Gospel.
04/17/17
Quid pro quo, you scratch my back and I will scratch yours. It tends to be the way we humans operate.
04/14/17
Have you ever wondered, of all the adjectives we could use to describe this day why in the world we chose the word “good?” Yeah, me too.
04/14/17
The story of Christ crucified has a happy ending. Jesus has conquered the grave. He beat the death rap.
04/12/17
The creation is one of God’s good gifts and being cut off from nature and wild places, as we often are in the modern world, is probably not so good for us.
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04/04/17
Apart from bare, naked faith in Jesus' atoning work for us, no sinner is, or ever can be, holy.
03/31/17
Sacrifice is the beating heart of the Scriptures, but also of our Christian faith.
03/30/17
This had been a lonely year, though. She could keep herself busy for a while with friends and she could distract herself for a few weekends by leaving town, but something was definitely missing.
03/28/17
True faith, saving faith that receives the good news about the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world is a faith created in us by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel (Eph 2:8-9).
03/26/17
There’s some wild and untamed prayers in the psalms. But they’re fenced in by order, symmetry, predictability. They organize chaos. And they bring order and hope and stability to our chaotic lives.
03/24/17
If you don’t believe Jesus Christ—that is, God in the man born of the Virgin Mary—died for the sins of the world, then you can’t evangelize.
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