The Look and Feel of Vocation from the Outside
By Scott Keith
04/24/26
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The Look and Feel of Vocation from the Outside

This is an excerpt from the first chapter of Being Family by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 1-6.
Prophecy, Promises, and the Freedom of
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
04/23/26

Prophecy, Promises, and the Freedom of "I Don’t Know"

God has told us everything necessary for faith. However he has not told us everything there is to know.
The Backwards Mercy of Jesus’s Baptism
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
04/22/26

The Backwards Mercy of Jesus’s Baptism

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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Bradley Gray
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The Crushed Serpent: the Believer’s Only Hope

There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
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Trusting God in Trial

To “trust in God in trial” means we fight our battles by kneeling and praying to “the Holy One of Israel,” who works out our deliverance by himself.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
08/09/22

Going Back to Square One

We bring nothing with us that contributes to the preaching or the hearing of God’s promise to us.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
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Christ’s Comfort in Our Crisis

Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
08/02/22

The Gospel of the Crucified Idiot

At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
Steven Paulson
Steven Paulson
08/01/22

Faith, Hope, and Love

Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
David Clay
David Clay
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Calling, Politics, and the City of God

Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
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A Cloudy Day in the Kingdom

With Christ as the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, the future is secure already. It’s solid right now, even when the cords seem to be fraying.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
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An Impossible Standard...Attained!

In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
Michael Berg
Michael Berg
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Neomonasticism

Neomonasticism—that is, the idea that church work is more important than regular work—implies that God cares more about the spiritual than the physical.
Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
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The Law Cannot Enter The Promised Land

Moses is no Jesus but he, like us, is saved by Him. The law cannot enter the promised land, and yet the true and greater promised land is occupied by nothing but lawbreakers.
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