This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life (1517 Publishing, 2025). Sinner Saint is available today from 1517 Publishing.
05/12/25
On its journey from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, this special place helps us understand the broader arc of Christian history, which goes on until Christ's return.
05/09/25
We needn’t fear statistics and studies as palm readings into a certain future. God is God, and his Spirit is alive through his Word.
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03/23/21
The true liberty that Christ gives to us through the gospel is not political. It is spiritual freedom. It is freedom from fear of God's judgment and wrath.
03/18/21
The petition not to be led into temptation is found in just the right place within the seven petitions.
03/14/21
Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance powers our ability to view the world with perceptive sensitivity and, therefore, to treat others fairly in the way we think and the way we experience life.
03/12/21
Repentance means being cut down by the law’s declaration of judgment. It’s not an activity we do to prepare for grace, but a point of despair worked by God himself.
03/11/21
If we want to see evidence of our Father’s answer to the fifth petition, we need only to look at the cross and the empty tomb.
03/10/21
Our ears are opened by the Spirit through the word. Then, faith in Christ is present in us.
03/04/21
Even though the horn of plenty on our table is there as the fruit of our labor, that is also a gift of God’s grace
03/03/21
God preserves language so he might continue to communicate his love and grace to us, and that we might communicate his love and grace to others.
02/25/21
The place where it is most difficult for us to accept God’s will is when suffering, calamities, and finally, death itself.
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02/25/21
The “Word” isn’t a thing, it is a person, the Son of the Father, who with the Holy Spirit is one God.
02/18/21
The kingdom of God has a proper name, and his name is Jesus, Son of God, Son of Man.
02/12/21
The paradoxical Puritan doctrines of an inability to convert oneself and the command to work out one’s salvation with fear and trembling placed would-be converts like Mather in quite a bind.
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