Christianity doesn’t start with our speculation about God. It starts with God’s self-revelation.
12/15/25
Christ did not merely urge humanity to be kind. He embodied perfect kindness by giving his life for those who neither earned nor expected such a gift.
12/12/25
Wade Johnston, Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis: MO, 2025.
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08/11/22
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.
08/09/22
We bring nothing with us that contributes to the preaching or the hearing of God’s promise to us.
08/07/22
This is true discipleship. We live with Jesus, we hold on to Jesus, we suffer with Jesus, because Jesus brings a divisive peace that saves.
07/31/22
We are loved by our heavenly Father. When the Creator and Giver of all good things is caring for you, suddenly, you are free to care for others.
07/24/22
What Jesus promises is better than justice. Jesus promises grace.
07/19/22
The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
07/17/22
This is not just a pericope about hereditary sin and actual sins, nor is it providing a pattern for prayer. It is fundamentally about God our gracious Father and His promise to hear us, answer us, and provide for us.
07/10/22
But it is not always helpful to create tidy categories of good and bad and to say, “Stop being ‘a Martha’ and do a better job of being ‘a Mary.’” That is a dangerous sermon to preach. In doing so, we can fall into the very thing we see Martha doing.
07/05/22
With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
07/03/22
The parable of the Good Samaritan is both a call to faith in Jesus and a call to love our neighbor.
06/26/22
Despite the very real obstacles and difficulties, this entire scene is marked by God’s gracious work.
06/22/22
There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.
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