Why the Reformation Still Matters in an Age of Virtue

By Kelsi Klembara

10/30/26

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Why the Reformation Still Matters in an Age of Virtue

Luther felt the reform of the church could not simply remain a matter of aesthetics and practice. Something much deeper needed to be rooted out.

Mark Duerr

10/29/26

Messengers, Angels, and Apostles

While God can, and often does, appear to people face to face, he also often employs the use of several types of messengers.

Where the Inside Is Larger Than the Outside

Bradley Gray

10/28/26

Where the Inside Is Larger Than the Outside

The “further up and further in” we go, the table keeps getting bigger, the guest list keeps getting longer, and the grace keeps on flowing.

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Steven Paulson

02/10/22

He Preached, and it Stood Firm

If God ever forgives you, it is not just allowing you to start over and try harder the second time, but it is a whole, new, complete justification that is given as a free gift and without any work of our own—outside the law.

Wade Johnston

02/09/22

Test the Spirits

The language of faith speaks promise and persecution, hope and trial, victory and pain. The language of the world may well speak the former, but rarely the latter.

Martin Luther

02/08/22

What the Law Can and Can't Do

God’s design in the Law is to enable man to know himself; to perceive the false and unjustified state of his heart; to discover how far he is from God and to disdain his own goodness.

Luke Kjolhaug

02/03/22

Victims & Villains

The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.

Bruce Hillman

01/27/22

Happily Waiting for My Faith to Die

You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.

John Bombaro

01/22/22

Preaching Justification and Regeneration Together

Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.

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

01/14/22

Peace for Simeon, and Us

Our children are not our own, but even more, our children are born in need. They are sinful, from conception and from birth.

Ryan Stevenson-Cosgrove

01/12/22

Death and Rebirth in James McBride's Deacon King Kong

At its heart, this is what Deacon King Kong is all about: the paradox of Jesus carving his victory out of the last thing we expect, not our triumphs but our defeats.

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.

Wade Johnston

01/01/22

Circumcision of Our Lord

Christ has received the mark of law that we might be marked with the gospel, with the sign of his holy cross on our heads and hearts as redeemed children of God.

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