The Flock You Didn't Assemble: Pastoral Wisdom in a Non-Monolithic Church
By Russ Lackey
03/16/26
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The Flock You Didn't Assemble: Pastoral Wisdom in a Non-Monolithic Church

The Church’s unity is not uniformity in every matter of her well-being. It is faithfulness in what constitutes her being.
Why Christian Tradition: Why Peace and Sending
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
03/13/26

Why Christian Tradition: Why Peace and Sending

Worship never existed as escape from the world, but preparation for life within it.
Giving Up Your Pietism
Gretchen Ronnevik
Gretchen Ronnevik
03/12/26

Giving Up Your Pietism

For many years, I held piety as my god.

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John W. Hoyum
John W. Hoyum
04/15/21

Gerhard Forde: A Recommendation

Forde’s work testifies to the liveliness and vitality of confessional Lutheranism, and its promise for the continuing need to preach Christ crucified in this, and every, age until the Lord’s return.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
04/03/21

God’s Sabbath Sleep: How Christ Filled in the Gap in the Creation Story

Tomorrow Jesus will laugh his way out of the tomb, spit in the face of death, and kick the devil in the throat as he dances to the clapping glee of angelic masses. But today he just rests.
Steven Paulson
Steven Paulson
04/02/21

How to Survive Good Friday

You can’t bear your own sins, to say nothing of getting rid of them.
Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
04/01/21

Repentance According to the Scriptures: 2 Peter 3-8-9

Repentance means to turn or change your mind. It is not a turn from sin to righteousness. It is a turn from sin to the righteous Son of God who has defeated all sin.
Bror Erickson
Bror Erickson
03/31/21

Salvation in the Silence of God

Good Friday encompasses the silence of God, even as it focuses on our salvation in the cross of Christ.
Robert Kolb
Robert Kolb
03/28/21

Holy Week Special: Christ’s Cross—the Orientation of our Life of Repentance

Each day gives us occasion to die to our sinful identities of all kinds and to live out a life in Christ’s footsteps as children of God.
Robert Kolb
Robert Kolb
03/28/21

Holy Week Special: Christ’s Cross—the Orientation of our Community

Golgotha is the point where not only Mary and John’s family life assumed a new character, but it is the point of orientation for all human community that uses the cross to straighten out the lives of individuals turned in upon themselves.
Robert Kolb
Robert Kolb
03/28/21

Holy Week Special: Christ’s Cross—the Orientation of our Identity

The cross does not remain on a hill far away. It pursues us into the valleys, the ravines, the crevices in which we get trapped as we wander in search of a fixed point for our lives.
Kelsi Klembara
Kelsi Klembara
03/26/21

Repentance According to the Scriptures: Luke 15:1-7

The truth is we’ve always mixed up the roles of penitent and priest.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
03/21/21

Epistle: Philippians 2:5-11 (Palm Sunday: Series B)

Paul wants us to see this “present evil age” is dominated by a theology of glory and “the age to come” is dominated by a theology of the cross. They are two ways of understanding and interpreting all of reality, but especially the ways and nature of God.
Gretchen Ronnevik
Gretchen Ronnevik
03/19/21

Repentance According to the Scriptures: 1 John 1:8-9

Being able to tell the difference between truth and lies is at the core of repentance.
Haroldo Camacho
Haroldo Camacho
03/18/21

The Sixth Petition: Lead Us Not into Temptation

The petition not to be led into temptation is found in just the right place within the seven petitions.
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