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John Bombaro
John Bombaro
04/26/20

Epistle: I Peter 2:19-25 (Easter 4: Series A)

You have been chosen to come out of the darkness and into this marvelous light, the light of the Resurrection. You are a people who constitute an exodus from racism, sexism, elitism, classism and now participate in a new race of human beings who are, through baptism, the foundational cure for the evils of these things in human society.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
04/24/20

Elisabeth Cruciger: Hymn Writer of the Reformation

Elisabeth Cruciger is the first female Lutheran hymn writer. In fact, her hymn was included in the very first evangelical hymnal, published in 1524. With her life and her hymn, she becomes a witness, an example, and a proclaimer of the gospel to us almost 500 years later.
John W. Hoyum
John W. Hoyum
04/23/20

The Unreturned Gift

This gospel is not like all other human acts of gift-giving. It doesn’t come with the expectation of a gift in return. His mercy is an unreturned gift.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
04/23/20

Slow Down, You Move Too Fast

The forgiveness of sin in Jesus' name changes the way we move, and live, and exist.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
04/22/20

The Lord Our Protector

When we are invited to cast all our cares on God's shoulders, he means all of them — every single one of them.
1517 Staff
1517 Staff
04/22/20

That Should Have Been Something!

"As we stare down another day, the struggles and joys that it will bring, take a deep breath. In spite of all the failures, floundering, and “that-should-have-been-something’s” flying in our faces, there is peace and redemption in Jesus." Tara Flattley
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
04/22/20

People Aren’t Downgraded to Angels When They Die

When Christians die, heaven does not “get another angel.” We cannot become angels any more than we can become giraffes or ocean waves or stars. We are people and will remain so after this present life. God did not make a mistake when he made us human.
Jake Allstaedt
Jake Allstaedt
04/21/20

Spoiler Alert

Spoiler alert! Jesus rose from the grave with the assurance that all believers will rise bodily with Him on the Last Day. And truth be told, Easter wasn't the first spoiler.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
04/21/20

Today, Life is Chosen for Us

When God's Word went to the cross and made full payment for all our sinful, self-serving, self-seeking activities, and then rose from the dead, Jesus added an "always and forever" to our days and life.
Haroldo Camacho
Haroldo Camacho
04/20/20

Unexpected Grace

Today, by faith, we live free from condemnation, free from the fear of death, free from all slander the devil could whisper and scatter about us. In Him we have a new family, the family of the forgiven.
John T. Pless
John T. Pless
04/20/20

Proclaiming First Peter (Part 2)

In this season of a global pandemic, Peter’s little letter is especially potent as he writes to sustain the hope born of Christ’s resurrection in scattered believers whose lives were marked by suffering.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
04/20/20

Epistle: 1 Peter 1:17-25 (Easter 3: Series A)

The life of holiness will overtake the world on the last day. Practice living in the coming world now.
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