The temptation for many believers is either despair or outrage: despair that Christendom is fading, or outrage at the civilization replacing it.
05/15/26
Through baptism, absolution, and the Lord’s Supper, Christ meets you with his radical forgiveness which changes everything, even the self!
05/11/26
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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01/19/16
Without getting into specifics, I have suffered a loss that seemed at times unbearable. I cried. I pleaded. I questioned. I prayed. I drank. Rinse. Repeat.
01/18/16
During my many journeys to Japan, I discovered that more than a quarter millennium after his death Bach is now playing a key role in evangelizing that country, one of the most secularized nations in the developed world.
01/18/16
Recently at the Golden Globes, Jim Carrey took to the stage to present the award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. Though his short, humorous speech got a lot of people laughing, I don't doubt that the poignancy of his words also got a lot of people thinking.
01/15/16
It may seem easy to believe in the God who changes water into wine, but it is not. For when man is at his happiest, he thinks the least of the true source of his joy.
01/12/16
All other subjects—even Biblical subjects—were subservient to an accurate view of the Person and work of Jesus Christ for sinners.
01/11/16
The pirates spent their lives seeking after the treasure and after finally attaining it, they discover that it was cursed. Instead of satisfying their empty souls, it only intensified their cravings.
01/06/16
A star appears in the East. A spotlight over its Creator. A single constellation bows over that Light of Light from whom darkness flees.
01/05/16
I’m still piecing together fragments. I’ve spent my life collecting scraps of personal stories that will explain my father to me.
12/30/15
The biblical witness is clear: all the so-called gods and lords and idols who are the object of people’s devotion, to whom they offer their sacrifices, to whom they pray, whom they call God and Lord, are sadly nothing but a front for the father of lies.
12/30/15
There are so many paradoxes that we can appreciate as we seek to grasp more of the meaning of the miracle of Christmas.
12/29/15
Prepare yourself. You're about to be encouraged beyond all encouragement. Are you ready? Here we go…
12/28/15
Isn’t it strange how the Jesus we end up with bears such a striking resemblance to ourselves? Our Jesus thinks as we do, acts as we act, speaks as we speak.
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