The confessors at Augsburg remind us that every generation of Christians is called to bear witness to the gospel amid the challenges and pressures of its own age. As they confessed Christ before emperors and kingdoms, so the Church continues to confess Him before the world today.
06/24/26
When Jesus washes you with baptismal water, you can rest assured that the Lion of Judah is on the move.
06/22/26
The life we are trying to manage, improve, and secure is not something to be mastered. It is something to be surrendered. And this is where everything changes. Because in Christ, the approval we are seeking has already been spoken.
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12/12/16
God coming to us at Christmas encapsulates the essence of Christian faith: we don't make ourselves strong and then work our way up to a strong God.
12/11/16
He created us with an eye on recreating us. He made humanity in his image because one day he would assume that image. The Creator would become a creature while remaining Creator.
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12/09/16
So it is with my little garden as well; dead, so it would seem. Nothing. Barren.
12/08/16
He finds the woman and the man in the Garden and fought back for the identity of His people.
12/07/16
Have you ever grown despondent from trying so hard to stop behaving in certain destructive ways, but always failing?
12/07/16
The devil is effective with this attack because it calls out all the things a Christian sinner experiences as simultaneous sinner and saint.
12/06/16
This time of year, Christmas time, the world isn't so much Christ-expectant as it is Christ-haunted.
12/03/16
Sometimes we try be the bad god, sometimes the good god, oftentimes a freaky hybrid of both. The result is the same: Jesus the savior just gets in our way.
11/30/16
I have the easiest time remembering all the good things I have done. How I was kind in the face of anger.
11/29/16
Old Adam's works are good because he says they're good. End of conversation.
11/27/16
In those waters we are nailed to his cross and washed out the door of his tomb. Within his wounds we safely hide.
11/25/16
Still, sadly, many polls suggest that above 50% of Americans get their news from social media sites as opposed to actual news sites.
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