By Ken Sundet Jones

07/04/25

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Freedom Beyond Strength and Wisdom

Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.

Free Indeed: The Liberty Only Christ Can Give

Ryan Couch

07/03/25

Free Indeed: The Liberty Only Christ Can Give

“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).

Bradley Gray

07/02/25

Faith Remains: From Habbakuk to Luther

How do the words “The righteous shall live by his faith” go from a context of hope in hopelessness to the cornerstone declaration of the chief doctrine of the Christian faith?

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Martin Luther

01/21/22

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

01/10/22

Jesus' Baptism

You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.

John Bombaro

01/06/22

They Brought Gifts and So Do We

Meeting the crown prince is one thing; meeting God in the flesh, as the Light of the Gentiles and the Savior of the world is another.

Kyle G. Jones

12/21/21

Christmas in Isaiah: Be Fruitful and Multiply

Isaiah speaks to our time. He speaks to our rejoicing now and an anticipated joy-filled future. Christ’s coming, Christmas, brings them both.

Kathy Morales

12/16/21

The Christmas Gift Phobia

We don’t have to worry about deserving, earning, or reciprocating his gifts. Our Lord doesn’t give us what we deserve. We are given what he deserves, what Jesus has won for us.

Ken Sundet Jones

11/15/21

The Beatitudes are Ridiculous

Look the judge in the eye and pin your sin on Jesus, the divine judge’s son. Jesus knows you can’t do it, so he trades places with you and pits himself against God’s righteous demands.

Luke Kjolhaug

11/08/21

Who Stole the Magic?

Without the sacraments, God’s grace is simply an artifact behind a glass-case in a museum. We might be able to describe and even admire it, but we never get firsthand access to it.

Gerhard Forde

11/06/21

The Fear of Forgiveness

A Sermon on Psalm 130:3–6.

Scott Keith

11/05/21

What the 'Dad's on Duty' can teach us about God the Father

Our experience with good fathers – even when they are not our own – can point us to God the Father.

Haroldo Camacho

11/04/21

Under What Bridge Am I Going to Live with My Kids?

Jesus meets us in our life of lies, in our falsehoods, in the untruth of our being, and in the company, we create to cover up our nakedness.

Cindy Koch

11/03/21

Do You Want to Be Healed?

Grace and mercy are a powerful act of the Almighty God. God alone can grant forgiveness and restoration, salvation from the sorrow of this world.

Valerie Thur

10/25/21

Navigating Life Under Christ's Sufficiency: A Review of The Jesus I Wish I Knew in High School

While the insights in each chapter are uniquely personal to the individual writers, the overarching theme is one of the sufficiency of Christ.

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