Getting Over Your Moral Superiority
By Daniel Emery Price
03/26/26
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Getting Over Your Moral Superiority

The Pharisee valued fasting and giving tithes, but could not find value in his fellow sinner.
The Original Sin of Preaching: The Constant Craving for a Useful God in Pulpit and Pew
Magnus Persson
Magnus Persson
03/25/26

The Original Sin of Preaching: The Constant Craving for a Useful God in Pulpit and Pew

God is not a tool in our hands. He does not exist to serve our goals, our metrics, or our platforms.
Even Chuck Norris Needed a Savior
Russ Lackey
Russ Lackey
03/23/26

Even Chuck Norris Needed a Savior

The gospel isn’t for the strong but people who know they aren’t.

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Erick Sorensen
Erick Sorensen
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Can I Love Someone Who Has Done Bad Things?

Over the last few weeks it’s been painful and disappointing to hear the stories of victims that have been abused and assaulted by powerful celebrities, executives, and politicians.
Zack James Cole
Zack James Cole
11/14/17

Bruised and Smoldering

“Obey God and he will bless you,” says the wind and the reed is bent over and bruised throughout. “God will never stop loving you but you can disappoint him,” says the wind and the once lit candle is now a sad smoldering wick.
Bror Erickson
Bror Erickson
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My Father, Bo Giertz (Part 2)

History was one of dad’s favorite subjects and he shared his knowledge with infectious enthusiasm.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
11/06/17

Out of the Depths: When Churches Become Crime Scenes

For since it was not enough that the Lord of heaven and earth hung on our every word, the Word came down from heaven and hung upon the cross.
Joel Hess
Joel Hess
11/02/17

Still Replacing Relics

The devil tempts us to hope in things that we can do.
Rod Rosenbladt
Rod Rosenbladt
10/31/17

What was the Reformation?

What is it to be an heir of the Reformation? It is to look outward to Christ bleeding and dying on the cross as Great Rescuer of sinners—of me.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
10/30/17

True Reformation

Where Jesus speaks to us, takes ahold of us, and gives Himself to us.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
10/27/17

Facebook and the Edited Me

Whether we realize it or not, all these online, self-editing actions are nothing more than our admission that we believe that we are so deeply flawed that no one will love us just as we are.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
10/23/17

Burying the Calculator: God's Gift of the Big, Fat Zero

We’re by nature counters. So long as we can add, subtract, multiply and divide something, anything, we have some measure of control and comparison.
Hermann Sasse
Hermann Sasse
10/11/17

What Only Christianity Has

In the face of all the misunderstandings on the part of the world and all the errors which have arisen within Christendom, let us make this point absolutely clear: the task of the church in the world consists uniquely and alone in the preaching of the Word of God and in administering the Sacrament.
Joel Hess
Joel Hess
10/05/17

I Am That Guy

We all desperately need God’s only Son to take our place, to cleanse us by His blood, to wipe away our evil deeds.
Steven A. Hein
Steven A. Hein
10/04/17

Unsavory Grace From and Unsavory Lord

The cross presents us a radically different standard. In God’s justice executed in the cross of Christ, nobody gets what they deserve.
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