Ecclesiastes tells us that there is a time for everything under heaven. But God has also placed eternity in our hearts, and that makes us strange creatures: able to rejoice in this life yet always aching for a life that only Christ can give.
08/28/26
What does it take to draw near to God? It takes a perfect priest, a finished work, and a broken body to open the way. In short, it takes everything, which is exactly what Christ has given for you.
08/26/26
Christianity need not retreat from investigation. Its central claim is that the Word became flesh, entered history, was crucified, and on the third day rose from the dead. That is not an embarrassment to be overcome. It is the claim we have been given to declare and defend.
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06/05/22
Our daily remembrance of baptism, our daily dying and rising, is a daily joining to Jesus and His death and resurrection for us.
06/05/22
The celebration of Trinity Sunday–the only church festival specifically dedicated to a doctrine–reminds us of the necessity of confessing that the one God exists in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
06/02/22
The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
05/30/22
In the face of abject evil, these two faithfully cling to the words and truths of he alone who is Good, Jehovah God.
05/29/22
At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit is poured out and the language of man is united again for the Gospel to be preached to the ends of the earth.
05/29/22
How might your preaching of the work of the Spirit expand your own view of the Spirit’s work, and help your hearers gain an appreciation for the Holy Spirit’s activity in their lives beyond a standalone celebration, one day a year?
05/29/22
Pentecost is a flashback. It drives us back to the past. It also propels us forward into the future.
05/28/22
My greatest fear is simply this: I will be exposed for the phony I am.
05/27/22
The glimpse of this final vision of healing has healed us before, it heals us here and now, and it will heal us again.
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05/26/22
Just as the disciples on the road to Emmaus recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread, so we, through the working of the Holy Spirit, recognize our Lord in the Word and Sacraments.
05/25/22
I trust that because of the gospel, God will continue to mend what I, in my sin, continue to break.
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05/25/22
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