The Consuming Fire and the Holiness That Comes Down
By Bradley Gray
10/02/25
23mins

The Consuming Fire and the Holiness That Comes Down

He doesn’t consume us, even though that is what we deserve. Instead, Jesus comes down to us and consumes all our sin by taking it on himself.
When Pastors Are Abused by Their Congregations
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
10/01/25

When Pastors Are Abused by Their Congregations

This article is the first part of a two-part series. The second part will take a look at when pastors abuse their congregations.
An Excerpt from Untamed Prayers: Psalm 123 and Psalm 136
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
09/30/25

An Excerpt from Untamed Prayers: Psalm 123 and Psalm 136

The following entries are excerpts from Chad Bird’s new book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of the Psalms (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 311 and 335

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Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
06/22/22

Hope for These Bodies of Death: Understanding Romans 7

There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
06/19/22

Gospel: Luke 9:51-56 (Pentecost 3: Series C)

Nuance and subtlety have been replaced with scorched-earth contempt. It is us versus them. Compromise is not an option. Jesus, however, would have none of it.
Ron Hodel
Ron Hodel
06/17/22

It's Good To Be Lost

This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the fifth installment of that series.
Ron Hodel
Ron Hodel
06/15/22

Adopted

God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
06/12/22

Gospel: Luke 8:26-39 (Pentecost 2: Series C)

Jesus comes to people and changes everything. “Before” is long gone. “After” is a whole new world.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
06/10/22

The Trinity Is History

The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
1517 Staff
1517 Staff
06/08/22

Bach as Missionary to Japan

For Japan’s highly secularized elite, alienated by collapsing opportunity and the materialistic void left behind, Bach’s music was a balm.
Kevin Hale
Kevin Hale
06/07/22

He Devises Means

Our God is the one who brings back the exile, who restores the outcast, he is the one who devises means to do so.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
06/06/22

Malachi’s Message of the Maker’s Love

Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
06/05/22

Gospel: John 8:48-59 (Holy Trinity: Series C)

As astounding as co-eternity and co-equality with the Father in majesty and glory is, this is not the most significant answer Jesus gave in this Gospel reading, not for us at least.
Justin Rossow
Justin Rossow
06/05/22

Epistle: Acts 2:14a, 22–36 (Holy Trinity: Series C)

Our daily remembrance of baptism, our daily dying and rising, is a daily joining to Jesus and His death and resurrection for us.
John T. Pless
John T. Pless
06/05/22

Preaching Trinity Sunday

The celebration of Trinity Sunday–the only church festival specifically dedicated to a doctrine–reminds us of the necessity of confessing that the one God exists in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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