By Luke Kjolhaug

10/16/26

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Grace is Not an Excuse

In Jesus, God acted first, even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:5).

Chad Bird

10/13/26

Jesus Is God: The Old Testament Says So

Yahweh who is pierced and mourned in prophecy is Jesus who is pierced and mourned in fulfillment.

John W. Hoyum

10/09/26

World Mission and Inner Mission

There is indeed a responsibility for the church to share the gospel in the world, but never at the expense of the church’s charity and mercy for those neighbors who are nearby.

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Tyler Cronkright

01/28/21

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

And because Jesus on the cross was sin in its entirety, God cannot look at him. He turns his face away, causing Jesus to cry out in utmost agony, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”

Grant Klembara

01/25/21

Death's End according to Poet John Donne

Out of great pain and suffering often comes goodness, beauty, and truth. John Donne, born on the 22nd of January in 1573, is an excellent example of that for us in his masterful work, Death Be Not Proud.

John W. Hoyum

01/01/21

Dominus Mortis

Perhaps this past year has prompted the recognition that God is not the tame projection of our highest hopes and dreams. Instead, he is the one who uses even his foes to make a point.

Robert Kolb

12/27/20

Silvester and Year’s End in Pandemic

As we close out an old year, Saint Silvester can remind us God is the Lord of history and He has used and is using even people whose lives sink largely or totally into obscurity to keep the confession of our faith in Jesus Christ alive.

John Chrysostom

12/25/20

A Nativity Sermon

Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the Nativity. For this day the ancient slavery is ended, the power of death is broken, paradise is unlocked, the curse is taken away, sin is removed from us, error-driven out, and truth has been brought back.

Ken Sundet Jones

12/04/20

Who was Anselm of Canterbury?

On this day in the year 1093, Anselm was consecrated as the archbishop of Canterbury.

Donavon Riley

12/02/20

Advent Time

To a world enslaved to time (because it has no future), the Church's disregard for clocks and calendars is ridiculous.

Katie Koplin

11/27/20

When There's Nothing to be Thankful For

In a year where things are unclear, tensions are heartbreaking, and uncertainty is rampant, what can we be thankful for?

Martin Luther

11/25/20

Creedal Thanksgiving

Because everything we possess, and everything in heaven and on earth besides, is daily given, sustained, and protected by God, it inevitably follows that we are in duty bound to love, praise, and thank him without ceasing

Donavon Riley

11/17/20

Jesus has Overcome Evil

Jesus overcame sin, death, and Satan on the cross. His bloody suffering and death marked this sinful world's defeat.

John Bombaro

11/15/20

Epistle: I Corinthians 15:20-28 (Pentecost 25: Series A)

The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the one true God appointed the Man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order. A man got us into this mess; the Man would get it out again.

Donavon Riley

11/12/20

Justice is Power?

God's justice is marked and measured by sacrificial love, not power as the world defines it.

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