This is an excerpt from the first chapter of Being Family by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 1-6.
04/23/26
God has told us everything necessary for faith. However he has not told us everything there is to know.
04/22/26
Jesus didn’t enter the water because he was sinful; he entered the water because John was sinful, as are we all.
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02/09/22
The language of faith speaks promise and persecution, hope and trial, victory and pain. The language of the world may well speak the former, but rarely the latter.
02/08/22
God’s design in the Law is to enable man to know himself; to perceive the false and unjustified state of his heart; to discover how far he is from God and to disdain his own goodness.
02/04/22
An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.
02/03/22
The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.
02/03/22
Starting March 7th, 1517 Academy is partnering with Grand View University to offer the first course of its kind: A college-level course for those ready to dig deeper and earn real college credit.
02/02/22
Rest doesn’t come cheap. Perhaps there’s no scarcer commodity in our time. Plenty sell it, but there’s no warranty, and it seldom lasts.
02/01/22
When we read a good story, we sojourn with the characters and authors upon the trail of longing. Such is the pilgrim’s path.
01/31/22
The sword of the spirit in Holy Scripture does indeed show us our sin, but thanks be to God, it also shows us our Savior.
01/27/22
You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.
01/27/22
In Israel, once a year, a priestly climber would reach the peak of a very different kind of mountain. Here's his story.
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01/24/22
If we think God’s power, love and beauty are reserved merely for the glories of Transfiguration, then we have not understood the Father; we have not understood divine revelation.
01/22/22
Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.
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