This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life (1517 Publishing, 2025). Sinner Saint is available today from 1517 Publishing.
05/12/25
On its journey from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, this special place helps us understand the broader arc of Christian history, which goes on until Christ's return.
05/09/25
We needn’t fear statistics and studies as palm readings into a certain future. God is God, and his Spirit is alive through his Word.
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05/03/21
Luther saw that God demands not that we become perfectly righteous like God but that we simply receive the gift of righteousness; a gift that actually makes us worthy.
04/28/21
Those called out for their sins, who find themselves knee deep in their transgressions, always need grace.
04/24/21
Now, if there were another way to heaven, doubtless, he would have made it known to us.
04/19/21
God has a strange delivery system, the foolish preaching of the cross and foolish preachers for Christ’s sake delivering it.
04/17/21
The result of this day’s proceedings, in Luther’s mind, was likely to be a painful death at the stake.
04/15/21
Forde’s work testifies to the liveliness and vitality of confessional Lutheranism, and its promise for the continuing need to preach Christ crucified in this, and every, age until the Lord’s return.
04/14/21
The Holy Spirit does what his name implies. He makes us holy. We believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord, and come to him only by the Holy Spirit who calls us with the gospel.
03/30/21
I can look at all of my failings and foolishness because I know who Christ is for me. I rest in his wisdom and life not my own.
03/28/21
Each day gives us occasion to die to our sinful identities of all kinds and to live out a life in Christ’s footsteps as children of God.
03/28/21
Golgotha is the point where not only Mary and John’s family life assumed a new character, but it is the point of orientation for all human community that uses the cross to straighten out the lives of individuals turned in upon themselves.
03/28/21
The cross does not remain on a hill far away. It pursues us into the valleys, the ravines, the crevices in which we get trapped as we wander in search of a fixed point for our lives.
03/25/21
This is not a plea for us to be given the strength to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. It is our helpless cry when boots – straps and all - slip off the edge of temptation’s cliff.
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