When we consider our own end, it will not bring us into a final wrestling match with the messenger of God, but into the embrace of the Messiah of God.
What do such callings look like? They are ordinary and everyday.
This is the third in a series meant to let the Christian tradition speak for itself, the way it has carried Christians through long winters, confusion, and joy for centuries.

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Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
Through Martin Luther, God would unleash a far greater storm than the one which overwhelmed Luther on July 2, 1505.
The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.
FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
Ethics begins not with our doing, but with the Triune God’s giving.
The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
Jesus does not put us on trial and make us pay for our own sin, but he, himself, is put on trial in our place.
God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.
History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
Scott Hall may not have been a theologian or a preacher but for me, at that moment he might as well have been.
Theologians of glory searched for God everywhere except the Cross of Christ.