By Mark Duerr

10/29/26

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Messengers, Angels, and Apostles

While God can, and often does, appear to people face to face, he also often employs the use of several types of messengers.

Where the Inside Is Larger Than the Outside

Bradley Gray

10/28/26

Where the Inside Is Larger Than the Outside

The “further up and further in” we go, the table keeps getting bigger, the guest list keeps getting longer, and the grace keeps on flowing.

Adam Francisco

10/27/26

The Other History of Feminism

Christianity does not locate freedom in radical autonomy. It does not tell either men or women that happiness consists in escaping obligations arising from relationships we did not entirely choose.

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Ryan Couch

05/03/18

Why Do We Go to Church?

For most of my Christian experience I was taught and I taught others that church was primarily a place to go to serve, to use your gifts, to bless others.

Donavon Riley

05/01/18

Baptism, Not Our Religiosity, Is The Thing

Jesus is the end of religion.

Donavon Riley

04/25/18

No Other God Than The Crucified God

In Martin Luther's Small Catechism he borrows a line from St. Augustine about what defines a "god."

Chad Bird

04/23/18

Six Bits of Advice for Men Staring at Divorce

We have to endure darkness before we’re ready for the light again. God is doing what he does best: he’s conforming us to his Son, to Jesus, who was buried in the darkness and rose again into the light on Easter.

Joel Hess

04/19/18

We Only Baptize Babies

God only baptizes babies. He only saves babies. He only resurrects babies.

Donavon Riley

04/16/18

How Luther Taught Me to Read the Bible

I’ve always been more at home in the Old Testament than in the New Testament.

Wade Johnston

04/12/18

Just Like Rome...

What did Christians do, both when they encountered a Rome in its glory, as when Christ was born, and in it decline, as when Constantine tried to pull stuff back together?

Zack James Cole

04/04/18

Someone Over the Rainbow

I hate driving. I am more of a “pew-pew” guy than a “vroom-vroom” guy. I battle my own heart every day in Atlanta traffic.

Kelsi Klembara

04/02/18

More Room at the Table

“Standing firm in the confession we share should not exclude us from inviting others into it.”

Scott Davis

03/31/18

Chocolate Bunnies, Bouncy Houses, Bread And Wine

Well, it is springtime! Just as you can always expect flowers to begin blooming, the days getting a little longer and everyone’s mood getting a little brighter, there’s something else you can always expect this time of the year.

Cindy Koch

03/30/18

Christ’s Second Word From the Cross: His Testament to Mary and John

This Savior’s love for His church is no small thing. He gives up His own life so that she will live.

Chad Bird

03/28/18

When the Whole World Rests Upon Our Tongues

It is the icon of the resurrection, for if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live into eternity, for this bread is the flesh of Christ for the life of the world.

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