God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.
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01/15/26
Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.
01/14/26
Bringing your family to church to receive “the one thing needful” (Luke 10:42) in Word and Sacrament honors and pleases God.
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01/12/21
Jesus knows you and everybody else come from a long line of life wasters going all the way back to Adam. Jesus died for life wasters! Let go of your bootstraps. Stand back up. Your Father loves you.
01/11/21
Salvation is not simply transactional; it is fundamentally relational. Not anemic, but full-blooded. Not disembodied, but bodied.
01/10/21
God makes all things new. He refashions us from those turned in upon ourselves, turned to idols of our own choice and making, to experience the freedom He gives by pronouncing us His righteous children.
01/08/21
Good works do not give us a righteousness that exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees. Rather, good works result from righteousness given by the good work of the Righteous One on the cross.
01/07/21
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
01/07/21
Epiphany celebrates that we have not been left in our hearts’ cold darkness and this spoiled creation.
01/06/21
This year, I’m more excited for Epiphany than I am for Christmas.
12/28/20
God has forgiven us our trespasses in Christ Jesus and it is his grace that begins the transformation process making us into little forgivers.
12/18/20
The way through loneliness will lie in the blessing of solitude and the care of God.
12/11/20
Praying this prayer every day reveals this painful truth, I am guilty in need of forgiveness every day.
12/10/20
It turns out the family trait of not being able to wait runs deep and wide in the family of God. We do foolish things while we wait for promises to be fulfilled.
12/10/20
Christ urges us to love our neighbor as He loved us, forgiving all of their sins - giving them the absolving, shirt-pulling, embrace that we would also want.
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