Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).
How do the words “The righteous shall live by his faith” go from a context of hope in hopelessness to the cornerstone declaration of the chief doctrine of the Christian faith?

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No matter how many times we hear this good news, it never stops being good news.
Our faith is precisely where Paul puts it, namely, in the blood of Christ.
Just as trick-or-treaters arrive at doorsteps as beggars, we come to the Lord’s table with nothing to offer but our sin and need for forgiveness.
Luther understood that music is an exceptional teaching tool.
Below is the Thinking Fellows Essential Reading List with contributions from each of the Thinking Fellows hosts.
Press on, church. Yours is the victory through Jesus Christ your Lord.
The one who delights in the law of the Lord learns to fear his own good works and trust God outside of them.
God can never really be said to be ignoring us, even if our experience with God at any given moment is that he is.
Despite the fact that this could sound strange to modern ears, Luther has an important reason for saying what he does about the Commandments.
Erasmus and the Unintended Reformation
This great victory, the true defeat of death, I receive not by my thinking, willing, or working, but simply by believing.
This is an excerpt from the Chapter 12 of Hitchhiking with the Prophets: A Ride Through the Salvation Story of the Old Testament written by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2024). Now available!