Because the biblical story unfolds in real places among real people, archaeology helps us understand the world in which God's saving work took place and, in turn, enriches our reading of Scripture.
07/28/26
The Reformers did not return to the sources because they believed the old was better than the new, nor because antiquity possesses authority simply by virtue of its age. They returned to the sources to recover the language and words that were actually written and spoken, especially those by great teachers and, most importantly, God Himself.
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07/21/26
The certainty of faith is utter assurance because it depends upon nothing of your own. It is entirely trusting that God is a propitious, pardoning God—the God who justifies sinners by forgiving them.
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09/16/25
Charlie Kirk’s murder is a reminder that Christians will be hated for what we believe, teach, and confess about this sinful world and because of the God who has died and risen to save it.
09/15/25
The Nicene Creed is the gospel distilled—a refined and concentrated byproduct of Scripture’s own witness to the grace and power of God in Jesus Christ.
09/01/25
The Word seems like it is so little, like five barley loaves and two small fish, but it is all that God used to create the heavens and the earth.
08/25/25
Bitterness took root when he began approaching the Word merely as a burden he was called to carry rather than a balm that his soul needed, too.
08/11/25
We need redemption, and we receive it in our church community through God’s Word.
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07/30/25
The Solas are not just doctrinal statements. They are the grammar of Christian comfort.
07/29/25
For English speakers, no Reformer comes close to Tyndale in terms of measurable impact.
07/24/25
The danger is not destruction. It is reduction.
07/04/25
Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
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06/30/25
This is the third installment in the 1517 articles series, “What Makes a Saint?”
06/26/25
I always imagined dying a faithful death for Christ would mean burning at the stake. Now, I suspect it will mean dying in my bed of natural causes.
06/25/25
How many times in our lifetime must we sigh, floundering through this world with our sins, sorrows, struggles, frustrations, fears, and foes?
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