American religion did not become optional because the gospel failed. It became optional because religion slowly redefined itself around usefulness.
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01/16/26
God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.
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06/10/22
The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
06/09/22
When the Law is viewed in its true light, when its "glory" is revealed, it is found to do nothing more than to kill man and sink him into condemnation.
06/07/22
Our God is the one who brings back the exile, who restores the outcast, he is the one who devises means to do so.
06/05/22
These are not exclusive words for Israel, but for all the people of the Lord God’s creation.
06/05/22
The celebration of Trinity Sunday–the only church festival specifically dedicated to a doctrine–reminds us of the necessity of confessing that the one God exists in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
06/03/22
That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.
05/31/22
The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
05/30/22
In the face of abject evil, these two faithfully cling to the words and truths of he alone who is Good, Jehovah God.
05/27/22
If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
05/24/22
There is someone outside of I, someone outside of you, that our faith and hope is in.
05/20/22
We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
05/19/22
The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.
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