The temptation for many believers is either despair or outrage: despair that Christendom is fading, or outrage at the civilization replacing it.
05/11/26
Do not disregard Luther’s early disputations, but appreciate their specificity and recognize their pastoral and theological continuity with his later works.
05/08/26
The heavens are neither geocentric, nor even heliocentric, but Christocentric. It is the cross and the crucified and risen Jesus who has the whole world, and each of us, in his nail scarred hands.
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12/21/21
Isaiah speaks to our time. He speaks to our rejoicing now and an anticipated joy-filled future. Christ’s coming, Christmas, brings them both.
12/20/21
Because of Christ, we find safety and healing in the light. Because of Christ, we do not have to be afraid of the truth that his light reveals.
12/19/21
All the redeeming in God’s Word ultimately points to the first-born, only Begotten, who redeems the world.
12/19/21
The text is not a legalistic set of principles. It is a description of the way things are for us, now that Christ has entered in.
12/19/21
Luke does not say much else about Anna, especially in comparison to Simeon. But the fact that he mentions her suggests she has something to teach your hearers today.
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12/16/21
We don’t have to worry about deserving, earning, or reciprocating his gifts. Our Lord doesn’t give us what we deserve. We are given what he deserves, what Jesus has won for us.
12/14/21
Pastor Craft: Essays and Sermons is now available through 1517 Publishing
12/13/21
Your Christian faith is a bloody faith, and that ought not make you fearful or scared or embarrassed.
12/12/21
This Messiah is not a continuation—He is the fulfillment and the beginning of something new.
12/12/21
The creation of this word reminds us that the Magnificat, like Christmas itself, is charged from the start with joy and praise.
12/12/21
When Jesus assumes the body prepared for Him to do God’s will, the end of an old era has arrived, and with it, the beginning of a new.
12/10/21
Big or small, potential or certain, the despair we may grapple with during this time of year tends to find its end in the fact that things are not as they should be.
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