The Deliverer Who Doesn't Run Away
By Bradley Gray
09/12/25
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The Deliverer Who Doesn't Run Away

Nothing good happens when you get ahead of God and take matters into your own hands.
When Evil Roars, Christ Still Reigns
1517 Guest Contributor
1517 Guest Contributor
09/11/25

When Evil Roars, Christ Still Reigns

To confess Christ crucified and risen as the only hope in a world that has lost its mind to wickedness and rage.
An Excerpt from Untamed Prayers: Psalm 86
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
09/10/25

An Excerpt from Untamed Prayers: Psalm 86

The following entries are excerpts from Chad Bird’s upcoming book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of the Psalms (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 191-192.

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Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
09/16/20

Death To Self: Can You See It?

Maybe for the first time you can begin to receive creation as a gift, a sheer gift from God’s hands. And who knows what might happen in the power of this grace? All possibilities are open.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
09/15/20

You Can’t Work For Peace

Because peace is a gift and not a product, you can’t work your way into it. However—you can receive it by grace.
Robert Kolb
Robert Kolb
09/13/20

Sermons on Hymn Texts

The Church's hymns help us see our own world from another—and perhaps not so different—vantage point that illuminates the impact of the work of Christ and the general providing and protecting activity of our Creator in our lives.
Caleb Keith
Caleb Keith
09/11/20

A Different Kind of Catechism

The scope of catechesis from the Reformation was broad and included not only instruction at church but in the home and in schools.
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
09/10/20

What Doesn't Kill You Isn't the Law

What doesn’t kill you might actually be a cheapened law that leaves wiggle room and space in the door for your old man to stick his foot in and get in on the work of Christ.
Philip Bartelt
Philip Bartelt
09/09/20

Talking to the Devil

As much as Luther calls Christians to a sober belief in the devil, he also calls them to a firm and steadfast faith in Christ
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
09/08/20

Anxiety and the Christian

Christians have the rare faculty, above all other people on earth, of knowing where to place their care, while others vex and torture themselves and at length must despair.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
09/07/20

The Junkyard God of Conditional Forgiveness

From the junkyard of my past, I assembled the scrap metal of self-preservation, self-righteousness, and unalloyed selfishness, to weld together a hollow divinity. In its core, I stuffed myself: a god without divinity, offering forgiveness with conditions, to sinners without love.
Cindy Koch
Cindy Koch
09/03/20

Not the Gift I Want

Little do we know the ancient and everlasting healing powers of God’s beloved tender shoot.
Daniel Stenberg
Daniel Stenberg
09/03/20

Does God Keep Receipts?

Character development? Change? Saying that it’s behind you? Yeah right. You’re just saying that because you want your nice polished image back. You haven’t changed. We know. We’ve got the receipts.
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
09/02/20

Chasing Broken Christians

We forget that Christians need the Gospel. Not as a side note, but as the front-page headline.
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
08/26/20

One More Shot at Forgiveness

God doesn’t give us second chances. No one earns another shot at forgiveness. We cannot earn forgiveness, it’s too costly.
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