Confession isn’t a detour in the liturgy. It’s the doorway.
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01/20/26
American religion did not become optional because the gospel failed. It became optional because religion slowly redefined itself around usefulness.
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02/15/23
“So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
02/06/23
Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
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01/29/23
Authentic proclamation, then, is the love of Christ for our souls, which we have seen and experienced through the under-shepherd’s pastoral care put into the words of Christ Himself.
01/25/23
All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.
01/13/23
The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
01/12/23
Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
01/07/23
The sermon takes place in the context of a multi-facetted set of relationships experienced through the weeks and months of being together in congregation and community. Those relationships shape the credibility of the preacher in the pulpit.
01/05/23
As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
12/24/22
Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
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12/20/22
Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
12/14/22
Hains offers a novel yet simple contention: Luther is most catholic where he is boldest.
12/06/22
The waiting of Advent isn’t just for Christmas; it’s for God’s reversal of all sin and evil and his renewal of all things.
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