This is an excerpt from the first chapter of Being Family by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 1-6.
04/23/26
God has told us everything necessary for faith. However he has not told us everything there is to know.
04/22/26
Jesus didn’t enter the water because he was sinful; he entered the water because John was sinful, as are we all.
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03/04/26
While we often talk about our growth, our progress, and what we are doing for the kingdom of God, the reality is that any goodness in a Christian does not originate in us.
02/26/26
Surveying Scripture, it is an immense comfort to know we’re not alone in our sinfulness.
02/19/26
This is the first in a series of articles entitled “Getting Over Yourself for Lent.” We’ll have a new article every week of this Lenten Season.
02/18/26
We can’t remove our crosses or the reality of our deaths. Only Jesus can.
02/17/26
People everywhere, every day, feel God’s wrath—and not as merely an afterlife threat but as a present reality.
02/10/26
Christians can pursue projects of justice free of the burden of being the justifier of the world; that office belongs to Christ and Christ alone.
02/09/26
When Dostoevsky died on February 9, 1881, he left behind novels that refuse to flatter the reader or simplify the human condition.
01/28/26
This is the third in a series meant to let the Christian tradition speak for itself, the way it has carried Christians through long winters, confusion, and joy for centuries.
01/22/26
We can bring our troubles, griefs, sorrows, and sins to Jesus, who meets us smack dab in the middle of our messy mob.
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01/15/26
Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.
01/01/26
Christmas is not only about a cradle in Bethlehem, it’s also about a cross outside Jerusalem where salvation was won for us.
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12/11/25
This ancient “tale of two mothers” concerns far more than theological semantics—it is the difference between a God who sends and a God who comes.
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