‘Peace’ means “I have forgiven all those sins against me.”
This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.
Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.

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A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
Anderson encourages us to meditate upon the ways that Christ truly is the end of our exploring.
Do our petitions move God?
This feast is the Gospel, “the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”
Kyle G. Jones gives a broad primer on what apologetics is, what it hopes to accomplish, and its limitations.
In this article Amy Mantravadi give a short but helpful summary of the differences in Lutheran and Reformed thought regarding assurance.
Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.