1. No plot spoilers here just some really Good News
  2. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  3. 1517 Resources to help Celebrate Reformation Day
  4. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  5. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  6. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  7. Attempting to escape the errors of medieval Catholic thinking, Agricola ended up making the same mistake of conflating law and gospel.
  8. Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.
  9. When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
  10. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  11. This is an excerpt from Faith in the Face of Tyranny: An Examination of the Bethel Confession Proposed by Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Hermann Sasse in August 1933, written by Torbjörn Johansson and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2023).