This is an excerpt from the introduction of Stretched: A Study for Lent and the Entire Christian Life by Christopher Richmann (1517 Publishing, 2026).
We can bring our troubles, griefs, sorrows, and sins to Jesus, who meets us smack dab in the middle of our messy mob.
Confession isn’t a detour in the liturgy. It’s the doorway.

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This is an excerpt from Romans 14 in Romans: A Devotional Commentary by Bo Giertz, translated by Bror Erickson. (1517 Publishing 2018), pgs 79-80.
This is a companion article to “Johann Spangenberg on Dying Well”
Moltmann is gone now, but his theology will continue to provoke and provide.
We know we are made for something great. We humans were created in God’s image and restored through Christ in his perfect image.
Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.
I have to believe that grace - God’s grace - will be waiting on the other side.
Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
An Analysis of Galatians 5:1-6
A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope