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Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
04/15/24

Did God Really Say?

Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
03/17/23

Reading Flannery O’Connor & Reflecting on Lent, Part 2

What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
Michael Berg
Michael Berg
03/15/21

Jesus > Moses

If Jesus is better than Moses, then everything changes. If Jesus is better than Moses, then the ultimate becomes the penultimate.
Robert Kolb
Robert Kolb
02/07/21

The Gift of Joy

Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance breaks through sorrow and worry; such trust pours joy into the way we think and the way we experience life.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
09/13/20

Epistle: Philippians 1:12-14, 19-30 (Pentecost 16: Series A)

It is the Word of the Lord and His Word accomplishes what it says. Our favorable or unfavorable circumstances neither help nor hinder the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Scott Keith
Scott Keith
05/07/20

God Picks You!

The Word was preached into your ears, the Holy Spirit worked through that word, and wormed His way from the sinful preacher's mouth to your wicked ears and onto your sinful heart.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
01/28/20

Locking Preachers in the Pulpit

The Spirit did not plant preachers in the pulpit to be pontificating moralists or political hacks or spiritualizing psychologists or motivational speakers.
Zack James Cole
Zack James Cole
08/02/19

The Lord's Funeral

One area where my theology was completely backward was the Lord's Supper. Growing up I remember that it felt more like the Lord's Funeral.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
03/25/19

The Feast of Easter

All the piety, rigor, and discipline presented to the world by the believers, the General knew, was done out of fear and the denial of God’s grace
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
03/10/19

Gospel: Luke 13:31-35 (Lent 2: Series C)

I don’t think the people of Jerusalem designed to reject God. They didn’t wake up one day and decide that, instead of listening to God, they would make it their mission to kill him. They were deceived. Blinded. Deluded by sin and its author. As a result, they were unable and unwilling to hear the Word of the Lord.
Zack James Cole
Zack James Cole
01/29/19

The Final Review

With a new year comes many new things. In the corporate world, we again introduced to our yearly performance review.
Bonnie Petroschuk
Bonnie Petroschuk
10/13/16

Like a Frightened Dog

My husband and I just adopted Duke, a very cute beagle mix, from a nearby shelter. He is about three years old and was found wandering in a park several months ago.
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