God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.
Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.
Bringing your family to church to receive “the one thing needful” (Luke 10:42) in Word and Sacrament honors and pleases God.

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This story is not meant for six-year-olds, but it is meant for us, though we should hardly handle it.
This is the first installment in the 1517 articles series, “What Makes a Saint?”
The Fourth in the fire is Jesus.
It's one thing to hope for a new reality; it's quite another to stand before it, no matter how wonderful.
News of Kilmer's death hit me like a freight train because his Doc Holliday stirred something in me about friendship—both the earthly kind and the divine.
Devoid of the gospel of Jesus’s death and resurrection, sufferers are left to frantically run the halls of self-salvation, turning this way and that but never getting anywhere.
You cannot sever the saint from the sinner. Christians remain both simultaneously.
There is no one — not now, not ever — who cannot be included in the family of God through the efficacy of Christ’s saving power.
Huff did not stop there, though. Towards the end of the interview, he asked Rogan, "What do you think of Jesus?"
As you step into the days ahead, remember this: no matter how lost you may feel, you have a God who seeks you out, celebrates your return, and rejoices over you.
It's a new year, and you are still the same you: a sinner who is simultaneously perfect in every way because Christ declares it to be so.
While Christmas may or may not have pagan roots, it will certainly have a pagan future if Christians lose sight of what it is all about.