1. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  2. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  3. C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
  4. The following poem was written by Tanner Olson to accompany 1517’s 2023 Advent Resources, The Clothing of the King. Advent begins this Sunday.
  5. I’ve experienced firsthand the promise that God never leaves a congregation empty-handed.
  6. God’s published will offers us anchorage, the anchorage of Jesus Christ, in the midst of chaos, reminding us that there is a greater purpose to our lives than the pursuit of worldly success or fleeting pleasures.
  7. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  8. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  9. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  10. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
  11. God's faithfulness is constant and consistent. It knows no season. His love for us doesn't fade with the summer sun.
  12. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.