Post-Denominational Lutheranism
By John W. Hoyum
03/20/26
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Post-Denominational Lutheranism

One great thing about our post-denominational age is that it has opened up opportunities to make common cause with other Lutherans who, despite their differences and eccentricities, can agree on some of the most important things.
Getting Over your Pride
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
03/19/26

Getting Over your Pride

Pride builds identities that leave no room for grace.
Blessed Beggars
Heather Schulz
Heather Schulz
03/18/26

Blessed Beggars

We can willingly admit the fact that we're just like tax collectors and thieves.

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John Bombaro
John Bombaro
03/10/23

Why the Church Is Theologically Conservative

We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
03/03/23

Reading Flannery O’Connor & Reflecting on Lent, Part 1

This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
Rick Ritchie
Rick Ritchie
02/20/23

Who Will Storm Doubting Castle?

Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
02/14/23

How God Loves Us: The Sound of Salvation, Zephaniah 3:17

Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
David Schmitt
David Schmitt
02/05/23

Gospel: Matthew 5:13-20 (Epiphany 5: Series A)

God has the power to take that which is small, that which is overlooked, that which is despised, and use it to create something wonderful.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
01/31/23

Remembered and Redeemed

Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
Dan Weber
Dan Weber
01/29/23

Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12 (Epiphany 4: Series A)

I hope your people expect and even demand this of you. But how we proclaim the central message, that can (and probably should) vary.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
01/27/23

I Don't Want Eternal Life, It's Too Long

I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
Sam P. Schuldheisz
Sam P. Schuldheisz
01/26/23

Epiphany with the Inklings

The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
01/20/23

The Gospel for Morons

Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
Dan Weber
Dan Weber
01/14/23

Gospel: Matthew 4:12-25 (Epiphany 3: Series A)

Though it may feel to us like the darkness is winning, God’s Word reveals the darkness is waning. The Light of the world has come.
Dan Weber
Dan Weber
01/07/23

Gospel: John 1:29-42 (Epiphany 2: Series A)

When all the people had been baptized, when all the people had washed the filth of their sins into the water, Jesus went into the water to draw their sins unto Himself.
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