One might say that the first statement of the Reformation was that a saint never stops repenting.
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07/04/25
Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
07/03/25
“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).
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06/19/19
We’re messed up people with messed up bodies. All of us. Even Miss America gets hemorrhoids. The Fall mocks us in our own skin. We’re all walking sermons.
06/03/19
In life, we make decisions, from the most basic to the most lasting, lacking specific knowledge about the outcome.
05/29/19
Thomas was without a doubt a skeptic. And he was a skeptic without a doubt.
05/27/19
With this declaration of peace, Jesus was telling His disciples, ‘Because I died for you, you are now justified.’
05/26/19
After teaching his disciples many things about himself, the world, and the things to come, Jesus concluded his last evening with his disciples in prayer to the Father. And he concluded his prayer with the words in this text. As the old saying goes, you can learn a lot about a man by listening in on his prayers.
05/24/19
For Luther, Jesus does something much better for those who grieve than simply identify with them: He brings suffering and evil to an end in His own death.
05/21/19
Jesus has won the battle. The war is over. In His death, the victory’s sure.
05/21/19
Death is quite the undertaking. To die when one wants desperately to go on living is the most gruesome kind of labor any of us will ever know. It’s painful and bloody and empties our pockets of the fortune we think is ours. But we must do it.
05/19/19
I know some of us get excited to show that faith and reason are like oil and water, and natural theology is the death of a theologian of the cross. But there’s a bit of nonsense in that. If we teach our people only to suffer (which they will do anyway), and to expect nothing more than suffering, we are sometimes unintentionally teaching them to want less. But Christ is more. His resurrection means there’s more.
05/19/19
When you are not experiencing this kind of tribulation, the promise of “you will” hardly seems comforting. But when you are in the midst of it—when the pressure of this world is bearing down on you—it is comforting to know it has not caught God unawares.
05/17/19
As usual, Luther took what he received and turned it inside-out, so that it shifted from a series of demands and became a bestowal of God’s gracious promise.
05/13/19
Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
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