1. This feast is the Gospel, “the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”
  2. In this article Amy Mantravadi give a short but helpful summary of the differences in Lutheran and Reformed thought regarding assurance.
  3. An Anglo-Saxon poem gives fresh insight to the cross
  4. How the pumpkin patch has a lot to teach us about the love and work of Christ
  5. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  6. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  7. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  8. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  9. How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?
  10. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  11. God knows that when we face insurmountable odds in our moments of weakness, we are more likely to turn to him in trust and reliance.
  12. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.