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Dan van Voorhis
Dan van Voorhis
02/09/24

A Farewell to My Teacher: Rod Rosenbladt as Professor

He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.
Sam Leanza Ortiz
Sam Leanza Ortiz
09/21/23

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Power: How Charles V’s Imperial Burnout Aided the Reformation

Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.
Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
06/15/23

Sin Will Have No Dominion

We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
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.
1517 Staff
1517 Staff
12/12/22

Church Fathers on Christmas: Athanasius

In whatever direction the bias of men might be, from thence he might recall them, and teach them of his own true Father, as he himself says: I came to save and to find that which was lost.
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
08/28/22

Gospel: Luke 14:25-35 (Pentecost 13: Series C)

The reason nothing can come before Jesus is because nothing endures beyond the grave except for Jesus.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
08/26/22

1 John 2:12-14: The Problem of Finding an 'Authentic Self'

There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
Jeffrey Pulse
Jeffrey Pulse
07/17/22

Old Testament: Genesis 18: (17-19) 20-33 (Pentecost 7: Series C)

God is in control, but God is also in relationship with His children and asks us to pray, to lament, and to ask Him to change His mind as we participate as the Bride with our Bridegroom.
Travis Scholl
Travis Scholl
07/17/22

Epistle: Colossians 2:6-19 (Pentecost 7: Series C)

What pressures or dangers are these particular people, in this particular place, facing right now which keep them from being “rooted and built up” in Christ? What is keeping them from “abounding in thanksgiving”?
Travis Scholl
Travis Scholl
07/10/22

Epistle: Colossians 1:21-29 (Pentecost 6: Series C)

What might be a unique challenge of this text is how our preaching of it might itself resonate with its mystery. It goes to a broader question: How can we retain a sense of the “mysterious” in our preaching of mysterious texts?
Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
06/24/22

The Paradoxes of Faith

It’s God’s power that we are dealing with here that is made perfect in weakness, not ours. God’s power is made perfect in the weakness of the cross.
Jessica Thompson
Jessica Thompson
05/08/19

Joy Is Coming

Seasons of prolonged suffering have a way of beating your spirit down into the dust. Relational suffering. Physical suffering. Emotional suffering. Financial suffering.
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