By Donavon Riley

08/20/25

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The Child Who Rules the House

Children are not meant to carry crowns. They are not meant to rule. The burden crushes them in slow, invisible ways.

Amy Mantravadi

08/19/25

How Should We View Mary?

Can we then honor Mary without falling into error? I believe we can by focusing on four things Scripture does teach about her.

Zack James Cole

08/15/25

Homeless In Heaven?

Tetzel peddled righteousness for gold, but God gives it freely through faith in his promised Word, the person and work of Jesus Christ.

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Joel Hess

07/26/18

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.

Donavon Riley

07/24/18

The Truth About Loving Our God

The force of our love is violent. It is love acted out as, “I will love you in a way that’s best for me, and you’ll like it, and celebrate it, and reward me for it.

Bradley Gray

07/23/18

Grace Has No Expiration Date

I, like you probably, have an uncontrollable aversion to any food product that is past its expiration date.

Bob Hiller

07/23/18

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.

Scott Keith

07/20/18

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.

Cindy Koch

07/19/18

Worth Your Meditation

Our meditation listens to the King of Kings when He says; it is finished.

Donavon Riley

07/18/18

The Kind of Grace Named Jesus

Our complaints about God's grace always sound the same: "It was good to see him in church with his son this morning.

Bonnie Petroschuk

07/17/18

Jedi, George Beverly Shea and Good Works

I don’t know if you’re like me or not, but ideas can kick around in my head in a big jumble for awhile and then, all of a sudden, something random makes all of the pieces come together.

Chad Bird

07/15/18

Getting Used to What Happened Tomorrow

In God’s eyes, the last day has already happened in Jesus. We’ve already been made alive in Jesus, raised with him, and seated with him at the Father’s right hand.

Donavon Riley

07/11/18

It's Not, "What Would Jesus Do," but "Who Would Jesus Love"

No matter how loving we are, we don’t get bonus points with the Almighty for imitating Jesus. We love each other because we recognize that “this is one for whom Jesus died.

Haroldo Camacho

07/10/18

How to Measure the True Christian

The following is an excerpt from Martin Luther’s Commentary on Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (1535), translated by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2018).

Donavon Riley

07/09/18

Why Confess Sin?

Why confess sin? Is it so we can get rewarded by God? A little extra grace or material good for our troubles, maybe.

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