Becoming Better People, An Excerpt from Sinner Saint: A Suprising Primer to the Christian Life
By Luke Kjolhaug
05/13/25
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Becoming Better People, An Excerpt from Sinner Saint: A Suprising Primer to the Christian Life

This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life (1517 Publishing, 2025). Sinner Saint is available today from 1517 Publishing.
The Weathervane of the Eastern Church
Sam Leanza Ortiz
Sam Leanza Ortiz
05/12/25

The Weathervane of the Eastern Church

On its journey from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, this special place helps us understand the broader arc of Christian history, which goes on until Christ's return.
Church Attendance Increases in New Study—But Can We Trust It?
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
05/09/25

Church Attendance Increases in New Study—But Can We Trust It?

We needn’t fear statistics and studies as palm readings into a certain future. God is God, and his Spirit is alive through his Word.

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John Bombaro
John Bombaro
08/29/22

Our Dissident Identity

Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
08/26/22

1 John 2:12-14: The Problem of Finding an 'Authentic Self'

There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
08/25/22

Sermon on Luke 11:24–26

Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
Luke Kjolhaug
Luke Kjolhaug
08/19/22

1 John 2:1-11: Lovers and Liars

Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
08/16/22

We Cannot Hack God's Word

Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
08/15/22

The Crushed Serpent: the Believer’s Only Hope

There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
Gretchen Ronnevik
Gretchen Ronnevik
08/12/22

1 John 1:5-10: The Reality of the Light

God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
Scott Landrum
Scott Landrum
08/08/22

God is Great, God is Good

God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
Bob Hiller
Bob Hiller
08/05/22

1 John 1:1-4: Not "My" Jesus

There is power in the name of Jesus, and we love to manipulate power for our own ends.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
08/04/22

Christ’s Comfort in Our Crisis

Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
Steven Paulson
Steven Paulson
08/01/22

Faith, Hope, and Love

Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
Sam Leanza Ortiz
Sam Leanza Ortiz
07/29/22

Church Fathers: Gregory the Great, Pastoral Pope

Gregory is a bridge between the patristic age and the medieval.
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