1. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  2. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  3. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  4. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  5. This is an excerpt from Faith in the Face of Tyranny: An Examination of the Bethel Confession Proposed by Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Hermann Sasse in August 1933, written by Torbjörn Johansson and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  6. This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  7. This is an excerpt from Martin Luther’s Commentary on Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (1535), edited by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2018).
  8. What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?
  9. It is of the utmost importance that pastors teach their congregation that through faith in Jesus Christ, they are fortified against the machinations of the adversary.
  10. This is an edited excerpt from the conclusion of The Resurrection Fact: Responding to Modern Critics, edited by John Bombaro and Adam Francisco. (1517 Publishing, 2016).
  11. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
  12. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.