1. When properly distinguishing law and gospel in the Word of God, it is important to use the God-given gift and abilities of the imagination as your ears.
  2. If we believe that ours is truly the greatest story ever told, then we must share that story in creative ways and allow it to change the desires of its hearers.
  3. Below is a compilation of some of our staff and contributor’s recommended reads for this summer (based, of course, on what we are reading). Let us know if you find a book you love!
  4. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  5. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  6. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  7. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  8. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  9. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  10. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  11. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  12. This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.