This is an excerpt from the introduction of Stretched: A Study for Lent and the Entire Christian Life by Christopher Richmann (1517 Publishing, 2026).
01/22/26
We can bring our troubles, griefs, sorrows, and sins to Jesus, who meets us smack dab in the middle of our messy mob.
01/21/26
Confession isn’t a detour in the liturgy. It’s the doorway.
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10/06/20
The only reason we're aware of our old self is in baptism, God created a new self for us.
10/02/20
Luther's signature insight on the sacraments was that God’s word of promise doesn’t just symbolize an absent reality but that it gives and bestows God’s real favor.
10/01/20
In spiritual matters, the Scriptures teach us that freedom is tied to slavery and bondage.
09/30/20
This is an excerpt from “The Freedom of the Christian” written by Martin Luther and translated and edited by Adam Francisco (1517 Publishing, 2020).
09/30/20
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
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09/27/20
Nothing promotes good preaching quite like actually knowing the Word of Truth and delivering it from a disposition of passionate care, commitment through the long-haul, and life spent together with the people of God.
09/24/20
What does it mean that holding to Jesus’ teaching will set us free? Which teaching? What will we be set free from?
09/22/20
It is impossible to obtain grace and the forgiveness of sins in any other way, manner, or measure than by hearing the Word of God about Christ and by receiving it through faith.
09/22/20
We vote because we are citizens, and it is our duty. We serve our neighbors in love because it is our Christian calling.
09/16/20
This is an excerpt from “The Freedom of the Christian” written by Martin Luther and translated and edited by Adam Francisco (1517 Publishing, 2020).
09/16/20
Maybe for the first time you can begin to receive creation as a gift, a sheer gift from God’s hands. And who knows what might happen in the power of this grace? All possibilities are open.
09/15/20
Because peace is a gift and not a product, you can’t work your way into it. However—you can receive it by grace.
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