Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).
How do the words “The righteous shall live by his faith” go from a context of hope in hopelessness to the cornerstone declaration of the chief doctrine of the Christian faith?

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God's Word is the final word on you, and his claim on you as his people, his children, is the ultimate claim.
On this day in the year 1093, Anselm was consecrated as the archbishop of Canterbury.
The parable of the wedding banquet in Matthew hinges on whether a guy is wearing the right costume for the party.
I will continue to cling to the only hope I’ve ever truly had: that Jesus is my Lord and yours.
In the quiet of your own uptown, where your own sins bear down on you and create a troubled conscience before the world, before others, and before God, your Lord reaches across the chasm of brokenness to take your hand.
The following is an excerpt from Ken Sundet Jones’ chapter in “Who Am I?” written by Scott Ashmon (1517 Publishing, 2020).
The kingdom I seek is the lower-case realm ruled over by the almighty upper-case Me.
Christ isn’t preached in his glory but in his ignominy, his utter shame, degradation, and desolation.
Dangerous Bible stories show us a God who has no problem whatsoever using the muck and mire of our worst days to make his progress toward his good goal happen.
Elisabeth Cruciger is the first female Lutheran hymn writer. In fact, her hymn was included in the very first evangelical hymnal, published in 1524. With her life and her hymn, she becomes a witness, an example, and a proclaimer of the gospel to us almost 500 years later.
The gospel promise is that God in Christ knows exactly what your temptations are and still bids you find protection from them in him.
In some measure, if Luther had any success during his last two decades, it happened because of the woman who’d insisted on him as her bridegroom.