The Shepherd Who Sees Our Stains
By Aaron Boerst
09/19/25
8mins

The Shepherd Who Sees Our Stains

God leads us to green pastures. He comforts us with his grace in our darkest valleys.
Spiritual But Not Useless
1517 Guest Contributor
1517 Guest Contributor
09/18/25

Spiritual But Not Useless

Christian spirituality is not a flight from the world, but a deep dive into its brokenness.
When Silence Speaks: A Christian Call to Restraint in the Age of Opinions
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
09/17/25

When Silence Speaks: A Christian Call to Restraint in the Age of Opinions

At the end of the day, what do you want to be known for? Your opinions, or your Savior?

All Articles

Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
12/16/21

The Christmas Gift Phobia

We don’t have to worry about deserving, earning, or reciprocating his gifts. Our Lord doesn’t give us what we deserve. We are given what he deserves, what Jesus has won for us.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
12/13/21

Nothing But the Blood

Your Christian faith is a bloody faith, and that ought not make you fearful or scared or embarrassed.
Haroldo Camacho
Haroldo Camacho
12/11/21

Don't You Know My Own Story?

He also took our own history and suffered all the agony and pain of our own lives.
Grant Klembara
Grant Klembara
12/07/21

QAnon, Christianity, and Belief in a Resurrection

So what, if anything, makes us different from those who are waiting on the grassy knoll in Dallas, TX? Can we be any more sure of our belief in the resurrection?
Steven Paulson
Steven Paulson
12/03/21

Implications of the Incarnation: The Incarnation is New Creation

Each week during this year’s Advent series, we will take a look at a specific implication of Christ’s incarnation. This week, we will discover how God reaffirms the goodness of his creation by making all things new in the incarnation.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
12/01/21

Advent's Double Helix

There is no other transitionary event in human history that warrants three full months of focused attention and persistent acknowledgment than the incarnation of the Son of God.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
11/30/21

The Antidote to "Sadvent"

If Jesus is indeed the same yesterday, today, and forever, everything his enfleshment brings is already assured: life, salvation, and forgiveness.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
11/22/21

Offering the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving

That's how true faith talks. It doesn't talk about itself. It says "Thank you!" to the one who gives healing and salvation.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
11/15/21

The Beatitudes are Ridiculous

Look the judge in the eye and pin your sin on Jesus, the divine judge’s son. Jesus knows you can’t do it, so he trades places with you and pits himself against God’s righteous demands.
Kelsi Klembara
Kelsi Klembara
11/13/21

On Demystifying the Church

The church is the only place God promises to lift us out of ourselves not in order to become more like God but so that we may finally be freed from our obsession with becoming little gods.
Sam P. Schuldheisz
Sam P. Schuldheisz
11/12/21

A Reformation of the Imagination

The Reformation was yet another era of history when God’s people were faced with the question that Jesus asked his disciples: “Who do you say that I am?”
Luke Kjolhaug
Luke Kjolhaug
11/08/21

Who Stole the Magic?

Without the sacraments, God’s grace is simply an artifact behind a glass-case in a museum. We might be able to describe and even admire it, but we never get firsthand access to it.
1517 is a Christian non-profit (501(c)3) multi-media organization. Our mission is to declare and defend the Good News that we are forgiven and free on account of the death and resurrection of Jesus alone.
1517.org
Search
Academy
Donate

1517 grants permission for our free online resources to be printed, photocopied, and otherwise used freely for private and church use. We require that authorship and source (1517.org) are referenced and maintained. These resources may not be sold or included in any publications for sale.