The Last Great Gnesio: Remembering Oliver K. Olson
By 1517 Staff
08/08/25
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The Last Great Gnesio: Remembering Oliver K. Olson

Oliver was a friend, chaplain, professor, author, and loyal church reformer. This Gnesio-Lutheran giant will be missed.
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Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
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Gen-X, The Church Needs Your Scars

We don’t need another brand. We need a people who remember who they are. And that’s us, Gen-X.
The Parable That Preaches the Cross
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
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The Parable That Preaches the Cross

Just as each servant was sent to bring back the Master’s fruit, so did God send his prophets to bring back the fruits of a life shaped by the Word.

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How to Become a Very Bad Person

Don’t say you’re beyond hope, for there is not one beyond God. Don’t say you’ve done too much evil, for there is no wrong bigger than God’s heart of forgiveness.
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Ken Sundet Jones
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A Look at True Proclamation of the Gospel

The Confessions instead look forward and provide a critique of the world and of all my various religions and idolatries.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
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Daily Bread & Bread of Life

But when we trust Jesus, then we close our eyes to it all and say, “Heavenly Father, I’m your child.
Valerie Thur
Valerie Thur
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The Red in our Ledgers

The only sea of tranquility that can unite God and man and bring brotherhood among us is found in the Word and sacraments.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
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We Don't Need "Worship Options" on Sunday Morning

The church is a home for the family of God. It’s not a mall, a café, a coffee shop, or Amazon. It’s where we usually don’t get what we want, but what we need.
Bruce Hillman
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When God Wounds

Life is certainly unfair. But in Christ, at least in part, we rejoice at such a notion. Grace, that great descriptor of God’s devotion, is a word that only finds its purpose, only exists at all, because it exists as a response to guilt.
Bror Erickson
Bror Erickson
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When Church is Exhausting, You're Doing it Wrong

When those who are serving joyfully and willingly are instead encouraged to complain that they are carrying the load for the rest of the body, all hope is lost.
Wayne Sender
Wayne Sender
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Altar Call

This is my fifteenth year on staff at Bible camp. The path to the snack shop is well worn, and I’m an expert at carpet ball.
Valerie Thur
Valerie Thur
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What Writer’s Block Tells us About the Kingdom of God

Writer’s Block, however, entertains no such fantasies. It goes straight for my ego’s jugular and pounds home the fact that I’m not good enough.
Joel Hess
Joel Hess
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Why Church is For You

All other wonderful teachings of Holy Scripture from creation to Christ’s coming again are absolutely worthless without being understood in light of Jesus, death, and resurrection for sinners.
Bob Hiller
Bob Hiller
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Is James Preaching the Social Gospel?

No matter which side, it’s easy for all of us to build Bible verses into grenades aimed at obliterating the political other.
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Confessionalism and Why It’s Important

Where once we confessed reliance only in ourselves and our own power, now we confess reliance on Christ alone. So, for our relationship before God, our confession of faith matters.
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