One great thing about our post-denominational age is that it has opened up opportunities to make common cause with other Lutherans who, despite their differences and eccentricities, can agree on some of the most important things.
Pride builds identities that leave no room for grace.
We can willingly admit the fact that we're just like tax collectors and thieves.

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In Adam and in us, life has been wrapped in death. But in Jesus, God has wrapped death in life.
Instead of burning them up with unquenchable fire, He comes in solidarity, to be God with us and God for us. Jesus is baptized into our life, so that He could gift us His life.
The text says there was no room for them. And this should give us cause for a little head-scratching.
Christ has come, does come, and will come. He has set you free from the prison of sin and death.
If this opening verse offers to us both door and doorkeeper, then the doorkeeper stands with the door held securely shut.
The accusations of the voices we hear on a daily basis are deafening. There is no shortage of voices that will remind us of our failures.
This rather unique human being is God grounded in our humanity. The man Jesus.
Last night was one of those nights when I had an unscheduled 3:00 a.m. Life Assessment session.
Who was this Jesus, who could do such things?
With the proclamation that grace and peace come through the bloody suffering and death of Jesus, we're awoken to the fact that God's grace covers all our sin and His peace calms our busy heart and mind.
This time of year, Christmas time, the world isn't so much Christ-expectant as it is Christ-haunted.
My husband and I just adopted Duke, a very cute beagle mix, from a nearby shelter. He is about three years old and was found wandering in a park several months ago.