The Pharisee valued fasting and giving tithes, but could not find value in his fellow sinner.
03/25/26
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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03/05/19
The post-Reformation observance of Lent is both commemorative and penitential
03/04/19
Americans love the vicarious sense of pride they get from the odds-defying underdog myth.
03/01/19
If you are going to memorize a passage of Scripture, can I suggest these two verses?
02/28/19
As one substance, Christ is God become man, the fullness of God who was pleased to dwell in Jesus Christ.
02/27/19
The danger was not necessarily inside the city. Nor was it from an obvious source. Outside the walls of Thyatira, lay a small shrine of white stone.
02/27/19
God is used to working with colorful figures. One of the most colorful in the Bible is Balaam. Hailing from Mesopotamia, Balaam was what we might call a shaman or a soothsayer.
02/26/19
Holding to Jesus’ teaching while denying His divinity presents a host of complications that make it difficult to take one and leave the other.
02/25/19
Your eternal salvation isn’t dependent on performance or effort. Well, not your performance anyway...
02/22/19
The following is an excerpt from Law and Gospel in Action written by Mark Mattes (1517 Publishing, 2019).
02/21/19
We have at least one thing going for us: we know the first of these two days —our birthday.
02/20/19
We’ve all been there, waiting in line to check out, and the person ahead of us questions the price of something that was just rung up.
02/20/19
Asking, “Do you have to be baptized to be saved?” is really like asking, “Does Jesus have to save you in order for you to be saved?”
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