Psalm 12, Part 2: The Saint Fails, The Word Purifies

By Steven Paulson

01/16/26

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Psalm 12, Part 2: The Saint Fails, The Word Purifies

God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.

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Steven Paulson

01/15/26

Psalm 12, Part 1: Set in Salvation

Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.

1517 Guest Contributor

01/14/26

Welcome to My House

Bringing your family to church to receive “the one thing needful” (Luke 10:42) in Word and Sacrament honors and pleases God.

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Jeffrey Pulse

11/28/21

Old Testament: Malachi 3:1-7b (Advent 2: Series C)

The Messenger is coming—must come—because the LORD God has promised, and He is unchanging and always faithful no matter how unfaithful His people may be.

Peter Nafzger

11/28/21

Gospel: Luke 3:1-20 (Advent 2: Series C)

Like Isaiah and John, we look forward to that great and glorious day, trusting the resurrected One will return as He promised.

Justin Rossow

11/28/21

Epistle: Philippians 1:2-11 (Advent 2: Series C)

God is in control, and we are actively engaged in God’s work of saving the world.

Chad Bird

11/26/21

Implications of the Incarnation: Christmas in the Garden of Eden

In Genesis 1-2, the Lord reveals—or, at a bare minimum, starts dropping some big hints—that he will be quite comfortable becoming a human being himself someday.

Jeffrey Pulse

11/21/21

Old Testament: Jeremiah 33:14-16 (Advent 1: Series C)

In Christ, all things are new. This is also true in so far as His three-fold office of prophet, priest, and king.

Justin Rossow

11/21/21

Epistle: 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 (Advent 1: Series C)

Preaching on this text isnan invitation to express love and longing in your relationship with your hearers.

David Schmitt

11/21/21

Gospel: Luke 19:28-40 (Advent 1: Series C)

The oddness of this moment, at the beginning of Advent, is God’s way of saying, “The reason I’m here...”

Kelsi Klembara

11/13/21

On Demystifying the Church

The church is the only place God promises to lift us out of ourselves not in order to become more like God but so that we may finally be freed from our obsession with becoming little gods.

Chad Bird

11/10/21

Unloving Ex-Sins and Laughing at Scars

Fourteen years ago, drowning in the muck of dark despair, in the middle of a life gone terribly wrong, I wrote in my journal, "I wonder how, once this is all over, how I’ll be, how I’ll turn out…” Now I know.

Cindy Koch

11/03/21

Do You Want to Be Healed?

Grace and mercy are a powerful act of the Almighty God. God alone can grant forgiveness and restoration, salvation from the sorrow of this world.

Martin Luther

09/25/21

Repentance In Your Name vs. Repentance In Christ's Name

To repent in his name is done thus: in those who believe in Christ God through the same faith works a change for the better, not for a moment, nor for an hour, but for their whole life.

Martin Luther

09/10/21

Hypocrites and Work-Saints

The upright, in whom the law has exercised its work, when they feel their sickness and weakness, say: God will help me; I trust in him; I build upon him; he is my rock and hope.

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