Waking Up in Post Christendom
By Adam Francisco
05/14/26
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Waking Up in Post Christendom

The temptation for many believers is either despair or outrage: despair that Christendom is fading, or outrage at the civilization replacing it.
The Theology of Play and the Joy of Repentance
1517 Guest Contributor
1517 Guest Contributor
05/15/26

The Theology of Play and the Joy of Repentance

Through baptism, absolution, and the Lord’s Supper, Christ meets you with his radical forgiveness which changes everything, even the self!
Don't Sleep On Luther's Early Disputations
Caleb Keith
Caleb Keith
05/11/26

Don't Sleep On Luther's Early Disputations

Do not disregard Luther’s early disputations, but appreciate their specificity and recognize their pastoral and theological continuity with his later works.

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Bonnie Petroschuk
Bonnie Petroschuk
04/15/20

I Am Jonah

In the end, my only hope is that Jesus is always the initiator of mercy. He pursues me, even when I am unfaithful.
Gretchen Ronnevik
Gretchen Ronnevik
04/14/20

The Disruption of Liturgy

I love the liturgy of my church, and ache for its full return. When all the world is changing, and everything is disrupted, what comes to mind is what is unchanging: the grace of God.
Jessica Thompson
Jessica Thompson
04/01/20

Our Hearts Before God’s Throne

The throne of grace is always available to us. For the Christian, it isn’t and never will be a throne of judgment. All of the judgment for all of our sin was laid upon our perfect Savior.
Jacob Corzine
Jacob Corzine
03/20/20

Pandemic Preaching

The people should find their lives in your sermon, and no one’s life is unaffected by the coronavirus right now. It is the very fact that I can make such a blanket statement, free of all caveats, which makes it so necessary for us to preach on it.
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
03/18/20

Peace For Weak Hearts

Jesus does not give as the world gives. With Jesus, everything is guaranteed and has been finished from the start.
Caleb Keith
Caleb Keith
03/12/20

COVID-19 and a Time of Uncertainty

Is there, or should there be, a Christian response to COVID-19? I think the answer is yes, but not in the sense that Christians have a silver bullet or cure. Christianity and Christians do, however, have something to offer the world in an era of uncertainty. They have the sure promises of Christ.
Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
03/11/20

Come Near To Me, Please

The primary point of Joseph’s life (and every story in Scripture) is to point us to Christ. To tell us something about what God is like and how He interacts with His Creation.
Craig Donofrio
Craig Donofrio
03/04/20

Binding Up the Brokenhearted

Into our world of sin, broken hearts, physical ailments, and psychological suffering, our Lord of grace descended.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
02/17/20

When Sin, Death, and Satan Declare War

What a person quickly realizes when sin, death, and Satan attack in concrete reality is how inadequate and ill-equipped they are to fight them off.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
02/11/20

Addiction, Pain, and Mercy

There is true help in the midst of our pain. Someone who suffered as we suffer, who embraced all our pain in his suffering and death on a cross.
Bob Hiller
Bob Hiller
02/07/20

The Patience of Job

The following is an excerpt from "Finding Christ in the Straw," written by Robert M. Hiller (1517 Publishing, 2020).
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
02/06/20

A Cloud Full of Grace

They were righteous, but they were righteous because God declared it so. Just like us.
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