God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.
Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.
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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Understanding the doctrine of the hypostatic union can help us understand what God is up to in the Incarnation.
David and Job both know that prayer puts a cigarette lighter to all prim and proper books of religious etiquette. It is honest. Heated. Emotional. Raw. And the psalms are packed with it.
God broke into the midst of our pain and allows us to bring our requests to him as those who are counted as “godly.”
Jesus gave His disciples the Lord’s Prayer as a gift. It’s really our prayer when you think about it.
Good theology is the most practical thing you can have.
Theology is not to simply adopt the positions and presuppositions of philosophy, nor should it reject philosophy.
When Jesus spoke about mustard-seed-sized-faith that moved mountains, He wasn't making a quantitative statement as much as a qualitative one.
The question is this: Is it possible to truly believe God will give us a desirable answer to our prayers, and at the same time be OK if He doesn't?
Every day, in everything we do and experience, we are busy hearing, seeing, and telling stories.
God isn’t fooled by our fake piety. He would rather have us venting honestly than faking it.
Here, we read the mystery and majesty of the incarnation of the Son of God wrapped up into a single package
They cannot know that I am already a father, but, this side of eternity, I won’t ever meet my child because of a miscarriage.