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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How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?
Luther actually expected the Catechism to be taught in the home.
The gospel tells me that the revelation of weakness in myself, my husband, and my son is the occasion for the revelation of God’s strength.
Psalm 98, with its promise of a sea and mountains singing, takes these imposing natural features and turns them into a praise choir.
The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
The church’s song goes on and on, singing and ringing down to us today.
In Advent we wait, in Christmas we rejoice over the coming of Christ in the fulfillment of the promises, and in Epiphany we celebrate the surprise, the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles.
The giver of life, the source of joy, stands weeping together with the human family as they grieve under the curse of sin.
This article comes to us from 1517 guest contributor, Karen Stenberg.
We all know what I think (maybe) Rachel knows: Celebrating ourselves isn’t enough. It won’t ever be enough.
Though envy whispers to us that peace can only be found by “keeping up,” Jesus whispers to us a better word: “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.”
There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.