Calling oneself a “Bible-believing Christian” fails to account for the fact that every belief system, knowingly or unknowingly, arises out of a particular history.
06/02/26
From the very beginning, the community that God was forming was going to be much more inclusive than anyone could have imagined.
06/01/26
There are important historical reasons for making a distinction between ministry and vocation.
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10/26/22
The good news is that with our God there is always more: more than we deserve, dare, ask, or expect, more than we can see, hear, feel, or think.
10/25/22
There is no true life and meaningful community apart from forgiveness.
10/24/22
Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.
10/23/22
No efforts to create worship as a delectable dish to attract people to our services will ever work, because it is only what God gives to us in His Word and Sacrament that can satisfy the hungry and thirsty soul.
10/23/22
To preach Christ and Him crucified is to reveal again the revealed God who saves.
10/23/22
Clarity enables mobility. When preachers make the message clear, the people of God are freed-up to follow Jesus.
10/21/22
The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
10/16/22
This parable does its surprising work of turning everything upside-down, as Christ’s Kingdom always does.
10/16/22
Jesus is the only one who is His brothers’ keeper on behalf of all of humanity and the only one who answered the rhetorical question fully and correctly for you.
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10/16/22
Jesus speaks His Word, and a new world order emerges, with the possibility of uniting disparate parties in the true faith.
10/14/22
The love mentioned in 1 John 4:15-21 fourteen times (!) is a love that needs no apology but is determined at all times to sacrifice for the other.
10/11/22
We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
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