Jesus is not a god that we can manipulate and mold. Christ is the true God, the one who is.
11/12/26
The most sober lesson we can learn from life’s caves is that all we have is a Person, one who never withers or distances himself from us, even though we are weak and languishing.
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11/13/26
Your freedom does not depend on how well you live it. It rests entirely in him.
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01/18/18
In him, retribution is set aside. Forgiveness comes. A new order begins. Remember that God’s mission will prevail, because grace is in, with, and under the fabric of human history.
01/04/18
While I was still an over-eager seminarian the professor warned me, “Mr. Riley, this is exciting stuff.
01/04/18
Freedom from the Law does not come through personal perfection, it comes through Jesus Christ. The answer is not a better you, but a you who is united to God through Christ.
01/03/18
Only a god could be wise. We are seekers, lovers of divine wisdom, but it is forever beyond our grasp due to human limitation.
12/04/17
In an age when the phrase “new and improved” applies to everything from phones to marriages, when we as a nation mimic juveniles, lustily pursuing the next new thing, the worst decision a church can make is to cater to this weakness.
11/25/17
Our little congregation is part of a much larger church—the body of Christ, both here on earth as well as in heaven. And that church worships 24/7, never ceasing in its adoration of Jesus our Savior.
11/19/17
We strive, in short, to master the art of swatting mosquitoes. And all the while, we remain blind to the fact that in pulpit after pulpit, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is as rare as Merry Christmas inside a synagogue.
11/14/17
You are made new by the eternal satisfaction for sin in Christ, by the precious treasure at God’s right hand.
11/01/17
Luther accepted Augustine’s view of the church as a mixed body.
10/12/17
God created Israel to be the vessel into which he would place both his Law and his Son.
10/09/17
These teachings are the heart of the Reformation…If it is about you, it isn’t about Jesus.
10/06/17
The power and the purpose of the Reformation was to bring the full force of the Law and the Gospel to the ears of sinners.
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