Psalm 14 (Part 1): The Fool Speaks!
By Steven Paulson
07/21/26
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Psalm 14 (Part 1): The Fool Speaks!

The certainty of faith is utter assurance because it depends upon nothing of your own. It is entirely trusting that God is a propitious, pardoning God—the God who justifies sinners by forgiving them.
Psalm 14 (Part 2): Christ Captivates Captivity!
Steven Paulson
Steven Paulson
07/23/26

Psalm 14 (Part 2): Christ Captivates Captivity!

Sinners get faith as a gift when Christ takes their captivity captive.
Luther, the Turks, and Islam
Adam Francisco
Adam Francisco
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Luther, the Turks, and Islam

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Bruce Hillman
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Happily Waiting for My Faith to Die

You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.
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Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
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Grace and Peace for Stubborn Sins

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
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Peace for Simeon, and Us

Our children are not our own, but even more, our children are born in need. They are sinful, from conception and from birth.
Steve Byrnes
Steve Byrnes
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Remembering Those We've Lost During Christmas

Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
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Stop Doing Good Works to God

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Daniel Stenberg
Daniel Stenberg
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Peace that Divides

As Christians, we rest in the finished work of Christ on the cross, and we yearn for our neighbor to be reconciled to God, to know the peace that we are resting in.
Luke Kjolhaug
Luke Kjolhaug
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The Light is Coming

God’s candle is not so easily extinguished. His promise is not some vague light at the end of the tunnel that we may or may not reach. In fact, God’s light has a name: Jesus Christ.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
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The early biblical stories about Bethlehem are dark and violent. They wreck us. They frighten us. In this little town, we see a microcosm of the vast and mangled mass of humanity, each individual thirsty for even a single bead of light to be dropped into the blackened depths of their souls. He who is born in Bethlehem is that Light.
Grant Klembara
Grant Klembara
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QAnon, Christianity, and Belief in a Resurrection

So what, if anything, makes us different from those who are waiting on the grassy knoll in Dallas, TX? Can we be any more sure of our belief in the resurrection?
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The Antidote to "Sadvent"

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