1. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  2. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  3. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  4. Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
  5. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  6. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  7. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  8. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  9. I can guarantee you that when Paul was overtaken by the Spirit and inspired to write these words, he did not have in mind your local school's boys' basketball tournament.
  10. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  11. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  12. You’re not new because of what you do. You’re new and so you do new things, even in spite of yourself, because of your sinful nature.