By 1517 Staff

06/25/25

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Sigh, Cry, and Be Still

How many times in our lifetime must we sigh, floundering through this world with our sins, sorrows, struggles, frustrations, fears, and foes?

Modern Israel and Biblical Israel: What’s the Difference?

Chad Bird

06/24/25

Modern Israel and Biblical Israel: What’s the Difference?

Is modern Israel the heir of the promises and covenant God made with ancient Israel?

Caleb Keith

06/23/25

What Makes a Saint: A Saint is Hidden

This is the second installment in the 1517 articles series, “What Makes a Saint?”

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Cindy Koch

01/18/17

Addicted to Sin

He barely wakes to find himself nearly dead; even so, he can’t feel a thing.

Donavon Riley

01/17/17

The Great Comfort That You Are A Sinner

Salvation starts in being a sinner and knowing it because that's where God starts salvation, in making "Him to be Sin who knew no sin."

Chad Bird

01/15/17

"What a Foe We Have in Jesus"

God’s Son is infinitely more than our fragile egos have flattened him out to be.

Bror Erickson

01/12/17

Wrestling with a God Who Wrestles for Us

Far from being un-Christian like, the discipline and training that go into learning and practicing various martial arts can have direct application to the spiritual discipline needed for the Christian life of faith characterized by Israel.

Chad Bird

01/11/17

Birds in the Pulpit

The preacher does not merely send out the raven. From the pulpit flies forth the dove of the Gospel.

Bob Hiller

01/06/17

When Old Adam Fences the Table

I grew up with a great deal of guilt. It still keeps me up at night. For one reason or another, I was convinced I hadn’t done enough to be loved by God.

Chad Bird

01/05/17

Christ's Bride Doesn't Need Botox

Hers is not a beauty of breathtaking cathedrals, stained glass, or towering arches, but of a body.

Joel Hess

01/05/17

The Church is not a Hospital for Sinners, It's a Morgue for the Dead

It is the strangest of morgues—people arrive dead as doornails and leave alive.

Chad Bird

01/03/17

Baptism Foreshadowed in Old Testament Narratives

Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.

Chad Bird

01/02/17

Once Saved, Always Saved: True or Not?

The question is not can I lose my salvation, but can salvation lose me? No, it can’t.

Bror Erickson

12/29/16

A Bridegroom of Blood

The arrangement was made with Abraham when God claimed for Himself all of his being, and put the seal of His promise upon the most personal member of his anatomy.

Jessica Delgado

12/27/16

Why Valuing Myself Is Pointless

You don’t have to wait any long stretch of time for me to find my way back to guilty. Though I am absolved of my sins–and I cling to, and believe that with all my heart–there’s something inside of me that thirsts for the darkness.

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