1. 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.
  2. The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.
  3. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  4. 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.
  5. God's faithfulness is constant and consistent. It knows no season. His love for us doesn't fade with the summer sun.
  6. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  7. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023). Now available for purchase.
  8. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  9. The nefarious thing about idolatry is that just about anything can become your idol: career, family, fame, wealth, status, spouse, you name it, any good thing can become a ‘god-thing” with ease. 
  10. Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.
  11. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  12. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.