The temptation for many believers is either despair or outrage: despair that Christendom is fading, or outrage at the civilization replacing it.
05/15/26
Through baptism, absolution, and the Lord’s Supper, Christ meets you with his radical forgiveness which changes everything, even the self!
05/11/26
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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04/03/23
If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
03/28/23
This is an excerpt from the prologue of “On Any Given Sunday: The Story of Christ in the Divine Service” by Mike Berg (1517 Publishing, 2023).
03/17/23
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.
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03/10/23
We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
03/03/23
This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
02/24/23
Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
02/23/23
There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
01/29/23
Authentic proclamation, then, is the love of Christ for our souls, which we have seen and experienced through the under-shepherd’s pastoral care put into the words of Christ Himself.
01/26/23
The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
01/13/23
The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
01/07/23
The sermon takes place in the context of a multi-facetted set of relationships experienced through the weeks and months of being together in congregation and community. Those relationships shape the credibility of the preacher in the pulpit.
12/24/22
Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
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