Wade Johnston, Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis: MO, 2025.
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12/11/25
This ancient “tale of two mothers” concerns far more than theological semantics—it is the difference between a God who sends and a God who comes.
12/10/25
This story points us from our unlikely heroes to the even more unlikely, and joyous, good news that Jesus’ birth for us was just as unlikely and unexpected.
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07/21/21
Through the often abominable and lamentable and occasional commendable season, there is one who remains unmoved by it all.
06/14/21
This is an edited excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
06/09/21
That a celestial phenomenon should be appropriated worldwide for iconic value or to illustrate a mythological legend makes perfect sense. One cannot copyright the rainbow.
05/21/21
You and I have a God who pardons all our wrongdoing by taking all of them onto himself. He doesn’t zap us into oblivion at the first sign of rebellion.
05/20/21
Sin, death, and Satan may have had more than a puncher's chance to beat us, but when God stepped into the ring, they should have admitted defeat and thrown in the towel.
05/08/21
We all know what I think (maybe) Rachel knows: Celebrating ourselves isn’t enough. It won’t ever be enough.
04/30/21
Absolution is the word God speaks to cause his sin-dead creation to live.
04/19/21
God has a strange delivery system, the foolish preaching of the cross and foolish preachers for Christ’s sake delivering it.
04/08/21
We will always need comfort until the reign of God, his kingdom, comes in full with Christ’s return, and our suffering and the sin that causes it is no more.
03/13/21
Jesus lives to intercede. So we needn’t bring him our feigned righteousness or our faux rehabilitation.
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03/07/21
The preacher of this text should follow the logic of the text, the divinely inspired genius of Saint Paul, and get out of the way.
03/03/21
God preserves language so he might continue to communicate his love and grace to us, and that we might communicate his love and grace to others.
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