“The fear of the Lord” is our heart’s awakening to and recognition of God’s outrageous goodness.
The women at the tomb were surprised by Easter. Amazed and filled with wonder at Jesus' Easter eucatastrophe. And so are we.
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.

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The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.
God's Word is the final word on you, and his claim on you as his people, his children, is the ultimate claim.
This story of despair met with the hope of the gospel is rightly told by many during the holiday season.
I hope this Christmastime affords ample opportunities for you to publish the Good News of Jesus Christ.
St John of the Cross' feast day on December 14 commemorates the day of his death in 1591, at the height of the Catholic renewal movement that followed the Reformation.
It wasn’t a perfect image, but it was still there, even in its cartoonish movie magic distortion. It was an element of the Gospel right there in front of me.
Freedom is the opposite of woe-dom. We must remind ourselves and teach our children that God's voice is the voice that matters.
Trusting Jesus, worshipping our Christ, and praising him, we have the blessing of God so that we can give thanks with a grateful heart for everything he gives to us today and always.
Where there’s more sin, there’s more grace! Are you comfortable with that? That the greater the sin, the greater the grace? Could it be that easy?
Love continues to gently but endlessly pursue the narrator, despite his persistence in pulling away in the opposite direction.
When we genuinely measure ourselves, we will find ourselves dreadfully lacking.
Christ crucified is at the heart of both our freedom from sin and death and our freedom to serve and love our neighbor.