One great thing about our post-denominational age is that it has opened up opportunities to make common cause with other Lutherans who, despite their differences and eccentricities, can agree on some of the most important things.
Pride builds identities that leave no room for grace.
We can willingly admit the fact that we're just like tax collectors and thieves.

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God invites you to confess the skeletons in your closet so that he might bury them in the grave for good.
In the overall context of Lamentations this text stands out as a breath of fresh air, or perhaps more accurately, words of relief after so much dismal lamenting!
Christian hope means always hope in God and hope in Christ simultaneously without distinction.
The fact that the LORD answers Job is a great gift of love and mercy, but He does not provide the answers Job seeks.
This article comes to us from 1517 guest contributor, Karen Stenberg.
God's new planting will keep the ancient Messianic covenantal promise alive and bring it to fruition.
This is the first direct promise of the Seed who will reunite all mankind to God by defeating Satan on the Cross.
The Holy Spirit is sent, not to talk about himself, but to point us to Jesus.
Does Isaiah find himself in the Holy of Holies in the Jerusalem Temple, or is this taking place in the Heavenly Temple? Perhaps we might say the answer is “Yes.”
You and I have a God who pardons all our wrongdoing by taking all of them onto himself. He doesn’t zap us into oblivion at the first sign of rebellion.
There is no life when one is separated from the Promised Land because that will be the place where God will send His Messiah.
What is it, though, that makes bedtime so fraught with anxiety?