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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
07/07/21

A Penny and God's Goodness

Christ strikes a blow first against the presumption of those who would storm their way into heaven by their good works.
Steven A. Hein
Steven A. Hein
11/18/20

Sanctification: The Powerful Pardon

The following is an excerpt from “The Christian Life: Cross or Glory” written by Steven A. Hein (1517 Publishing, 2015).
Jeffrey Pulse
Jeffrey Pulse
05/17/20

Psalm: Psalm 68 (Easter 7: Series A)

Resurrection is victory. God shall arise! Christ has risen! However, this is not the sum of the LORD’s provision for the people.
John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom
05/06/20

John Chrysostom on John 3:16

They who are but dust and ashes, full of ten thousand sins, ungrateful, and have at all times offended Him. These are the ones God loved.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
02/11/20

Addiction, Pain, and Mercy

There is true help in the midst of our pain. Someone who suffered as we suffer, who embraced all our pain in his suffering and death on a cross.
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
10/07/19

Gospel: Luke 17:11-19 (Pentecost 18: Series C)

This text gives us only a glimpse, a preview, of God’s plan in Christ to restore his broken creation to its physical and social perfection.
Jacob Corzine
Jacob Corzine
03/31/19

The Law and the Already Terrified Conscience

Where contrition is evident, the conscience has already been prodded, piqued, finally terrified. More Law only serves to confirm the lie this person is already at risk of believing: that the last work of the conscience is also God’s last word. But God’s last word is the word of absolution, not the confirmation of the conscience’s testimony, but now its contradiction.
Cindy Koch
Cindy Koch
12/21/16

Enlightened

God spoke into the black depth. “Let there be light."
Brian W. Thomas
Brian W. Thomas
11/16/16

The Alien Fashion Sense of Jesus

The redeemed are dressed in white robes.
Larry D. Hughes
Larry D. Hughes
08/09/16

The Reality of Sin, Death, and Forgiveness

When we explain away God’s Word, we jettison the reality of our ominous diagnosis in the “Thou shall/shall nots” of the law, and with it the sweet cure in the, “This is My body/blood” of the Gospel.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
06/12/15

Christianity That Jesus Doesn’t Believe In

No wonder that when young people grow up in a law-saturated, grace-dry church, they leave the faith by droves for all they’ve heard their whole life is a life they can never live up to.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/21/14

Look Who I Found in the Grave

God must kill me. He’s got to slay me, put me six feet under, and shovel dirt atop my corpse. Then, it’s like, “Hey, I finally understand! You’re God and I’m not.
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