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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The conversation between four year-old Jackson and his mom in the car after dropping off his siblings at school was all-too-typical.
What do we do when Christians are more focused on their doing for God than God's doing for them?
The real Jesus isn’t trapped inside a church’s ATM. He’s smack dab in front of you, grinning from ear to ear, laughing and loving you with a crazy grace that already filled your bank account with millions.
The fact is no one dies with dignity.
Have you ever wondered, of all the adjectives we could use to describe this day why in the world we chose the word “good?” Yeah, me too.
Don’t let anyone tell you the academy denies the concept of truth...good gracious, I hope by the end of the semester they are still alive.
Forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and eternal life aren't handed out by God because we deserve it.
God lit within these ashes the fire of a promise: whoever they touched, that person became clean.
He finds the woman and the man in the Garden and fought back for the identity of His people.
Christians are Christians not because of anything that they have done but because of everything Christ has done for them.
We want people to notice us, know us, like us, or even hate us. Just please don’t ignore us. Social media is the ego’s dream come true.
Why was Jesus crucified? Not to save victims, but to save sinners.