The Deliverer Who Doesn't Run Away
By Bradley Gray
09/12/25
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The Deliverer Who Doesn't Run Away

Nothing good happens when you get ahead of God and take matters into your own hands.
When Evil Roars, Christ Still Reigns
1517 Guest Contributor
1517 Guest Contributor
09/11/25

When Evil Roars, Christ Still Reigns

To confess Christ crucified and risen as the only hope in a world that has lost its mind to wickedness and rage.
An Excerpt from Untamed Prayers: Psalm 86
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
09/10/25

An Excerpt from Untamed Prayers: Psalm 86

The following entries are excerpts from Chad Bird’s upcoming book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of the Psalms (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 191-192.

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John Bombaro
John Bombaro
09/07/22

A Dove More Powerful Than An Eagle

The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
09/06/22

The Church Is Already Woke

Only by faith in Christ are we truly awake.
David Clay
David Clay
09/05/22

Forgiveness without God

Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
Jeffrey Pulse
Jeffrey Pulse
09/04/22

Old Testament: Ezekiel 34:11-24 (Pentecost 14: Series C)

The LORD God declares He Himself will shepherd His sheep. He will seek them out. He will rescue them. He will save. He will gather them in. In other words, the Good Shepherd will take care of His own sheep.
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
09/04/22

Gospel: Luke 15:1-10 (Pentecost 14: Series C)

The heart of your sermon is the promise that God, in Jesus, has sought and found each of us. He receives us sinners and invites us to eat with Him at His table.
Travis Scholl
Travis Scholl
09/04/22

Epistle: 1 Timothy 1:(5-11)12-17 (Pentecost 14: Series C)

This is why Paul is still an “example” for us. If this is what God in Christ can do with “a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence," imagine what God in Christ can do with you and me.
Craig Donofrio
Craig Donofrio
08/31/22

The word, Word

The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
08/30/22

An Epilogue of Eternal Consequence

A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
08/29/22

Our Dissident Identity

Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
Jeffrey Pulse
Jeffrey Pulse
08/28/22

Old Testament: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 (Pentecost 13: Series C)

These words direct the people of God how to live in their identity as God’s children. We would say, this is the reality of our baptismal identity!
Travis Scholl
Travis Scholl
08/28/22

Epistle: Philemon 1-21 (Pentecost 13: Series C)

Love bids us to choose life, always life, because the love of Jesus has already set us free for a life beyond our wildest imagination.
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
08/28/22

Gospel: Luke 14:25-35 (Pentecost 13: Series C)

The reason nothing can come before Jesus is because nothing endures beyond the grave except for Jesus.
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