God's Sufficiency in the Face of Our Inadequacy
By Bradley Gray
09/25/25
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God's Sufficiency in the Face of Our Inadequacy

He is the God who always is, whose Word is true, and never fails. He is a God who acts and always does what he says he’s going to do.
Election for the Rest of Us
Brian W. Thomas
Brian W. Thomas
09/24/25

Election for the Rest of Us

Election is not a riddle to solve. It’s a pillow to rest your head on at night.
From the Cross to Our Enemies: Why Christians Forgive
Kelsi Klembara
Kelsi Klembara
09/23/25

From the Cross to Our Enemies: Why Christians Forgive

The world takes notice when Christians forgive because such forgiveness seems impossible.

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Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
09/22/20

Turning from American Secular Religion to Christ

We vote because we are citizens, and it is our duty. We serve our neighbors in love because it is our Christian calling.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
09/21/20

On Grace for the Outcasts

There is not a soul who crosses the threshold of the sanctuary who is excluded from the message of the gospel of forgiveness.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
09/18/20

His Cup Never Runs Out

No matter how great our thirst is, God's abundance not only meets it but quenches it. When we are poor and in need, the Lord is always there to give us grace and mercy without end.
Edward Killian
Edward Killian
09/18/20

Ecclesiastes: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times

Solomon did not write Ecclesiastes to bum you out. He wrote it to set you free.
Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
09/16/20

Death To Self: Can You See It?

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.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
09/15/20

You Can’t Work For Peace

Because peace is a gift and not a product, you can’t work your way into it. However—you can receive it by grace.
Caleb Keith
Caleb Keith
09/14/20

Is Scripture Literature?

Viewing the Bible as literature is an essential and natural way of engaging the text. But there are also ways in which this practice can get lost.
Robert Kolb
Robert Kolb
09/13/20

Sermons on Hymn Texts

The Church's hymns help us see our own world from another—and perhaps not so different—vantage point that illuminates the impact of the work of Christ and the general providing and protecting activity of our Creator in our lives.
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
09/10/20

What Doesn't Kill You Isn't the Law

What doesn’t kill you might actually be a cheapened law that leaves wiggle room and space in the door for your old man to stick his foot in and get in on the work of Christ.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
09/08/20

Anxiety and the Christian

Christians have the rare faculty, above all other people on earth, of knowing where to place their care, while others vex and torture themselves and at length must despair.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
09/07/20

The Junkyard God of Conditional Forgiveness

From the junkyard of my past, I assembled the scrap metal of self-preservation, self-righteousness, and unalloyed selfishness, to weld together a hollow divinity. In its core, I stuffed myself: a god without divinity, offering forgiveness with conditions, to sinners without love.
Ryan Stevenson-Cosgrove
Ryan Stevenson-Cosgrove
09/04/20

The Gospel in the Way, Way Back

The gospel fires up within us the gratitude, joy, and love to pull off what the law never could get us to do.
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