The church is not renewed when one pastor tries to do the work of the whole body. The church is renewed when Christ’s body begins to act like a body again.
This is what Christian catechesis does; it turns the knobs of the Scriptures and throws the doors of God’s word wide open to tell us the story of salvation.
Christianity isn’t simply a tool to fix social, spiritual, or economic problems. Its claims are much larger, touching upon truth itself and therefore all things and all people.

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It's a new year, and you are still the same you: a sinner who is simultaneously perfect in every way because Christ declares it to be so.
The name of Jesus holds us fast.
A Bit of Earth is about the garden, but it’s also about us—as we are made from dirt.
Show me a sinner, and I’ll write you a story of a God who saves them.
This is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Junk Drawer Jesus written by Matt Popovits (1517 Publishing, 2024). Available today!
Jacob is given the gospel afresh right when he needed it and it is because of this gospel that his faith is stirred up anew.
The good news for Jacob is that God humbled himself so that he could lose a wrestling match to a man with a dislocated hip so that he could give him a new name.
This is a companion article to “Johann Spangenberg on Dying Well”
If you are a Christian, you already have what you need to give a reason for the hope within you. That reason, though, is not you.
Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.
Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.