A Review of
By Philip Bartelt
12/12/25
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A Review of "Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus" by Wade Johnston

Wade Johnston, Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis: MO, 2025.
A Tale of Two Mothers
Matthew L. Rubinstein
Matthew L. Rubinstein
12/11/25

A Tale of Two Mothers

This ancient “tale of two mothers” concerns far more than theological semantics—it is the difference between a God who sends and a God who comes.
Christmas with the Herdmans: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Sam P. Schuldheisz
Sam P. Schuldheisz
12/10/25

Christmas with the Herdmans: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

This story points us from our unlikely heroes to the even more unlikely, and joyous, good news that Jesus’ birth for us was just as unlikely and unexpected.

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Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
05/30/22

Trusting in What You Cannot See

In the face of abject evil, these two faithfully cling to the words and truths of he alone who is Good, Jehovah God.
Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
05/27/22

What We See in the Cross is Love

If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
Steve Kruschel
Steve Kruschel
05/26/22

A Fortress in the Face of Violence

Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
Zack James Cole
Zack James Cole
05/24/22

The Problem With I

There is someone outside of I, someone outside of you, that our faith and hope is in.
Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
05/20/22

A Place that Knows Me

We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
05/19/22

How God Made Mary a Theologian of the Cross

The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
05/17/22

The Judge and the Judgment

God's Son comes to deal with the infestation of sin, but in an unforeseen twist of grace, he’s the only one who goes under the knife.
John T. Pless
John T. Pless
05/14/22

Book Review: "The Word of the Cross: Reading Paul" by Jonathan Linebaugh

When Luther was in the pulpit, he was teaching, and when he was in the lecture hall at the podium, he was preaching. Linebaugh’s outstanding book will help contemporary pastors to do the same.
Sam P. Schuldheisz
Sam P. Schuldheisz
05/13/22

Catechizing Your Imagination

God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.
David Clay
David Clay
05/11/22

You are a God who Hides Himself

God excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.
Scott Landrum
Scott Landrum
05/09/22

Rustling Leaves and a Guilty Conscience

Make no mistake, sinners are in fact being pursued by a most hideous beast called sin, death, and the devil, unleashed and striking continuously.
Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
05/06/22

God Has Swallowed Death, Whose Belly Christ Has Burst

Nothing stands against you. Only Christ stands now, and he is for you, more for you than you could ever know, for you like nothing else that has ever loved you.
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