The only hope for idol-addicted sinners who are utterly incapable of decluttering their souls is Jesus, the one at the heart of the gospel, and the only one who stands before the Father with an undivided heart.
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10/06/26
More than a friend, Amsdorf was also an important figure in the work of religious reform, providing counsel to Luther on key occasions, shepherding the churches, and defending the faith until his death.
10/02/26
Just as it is necessary that Christ took on flesh for our salvation, so too, it is necessary that he should be in the supper bodily
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12/08/16
He finds the woman and the man in the Garden and fought back for the identity of His people.
12/07/16
The devil is effective with this attack because it calls out all the things a Christian sinner experiences as simultaneous sinner and saint.
12/03/16
Sometimes we try be the bad god, sometimes the good god, oftentimes a freaky hybrid of both. The result is the same: Jesus the savior just gets in our way.
12/01/16
Can the chain of cause and effect extend infinitely?
11/30/16
If the devil took over a church, I suspect it would be bursting at the seams every Sunday, with smiling faces, clean noses, straight morals, conservative voting, institutional fidelity
11/27/16
In those waters we are nailed to his cross and washed out the door of his tomb. Within his wounds we safely hide.
11/23/16
It was Jesus who appeared to Hagar, comforted her, and gave her the promise of future blessings. It was Jesus who came to her when it seemed everything and everyone else had let her down.
11/16/16
I don’t care why you left the ministry—moral failure, congregational politics, burnout, whatever—the Christ whom you proclaimed has not left you.
11/15/16
Every Christian is abundantly rich through baptism.
11/06/16
The church is God’s flock. Jesus is both a lion and a lamb. The zoo turns out to be as packed with theology as a seminary, if not more.
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