Post-Denominational Lutheranism
By John W. Hoyum
03/20/26
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Post-Denominational Lutheranism

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.
Getting Over your Pride
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
03/19/26

Getting Over your Pride

Pride builds identities that leave no room for grace.
Blessed Beggars
Heather Schulz
Heather Schulz
03/18/26

Blessed Beggars

We can willingly admit the fact that we're just like tax collectors and thieves.

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Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
05/22/20

Two Kinds of Slavery

We are free to be in the world, but not of the world. We are freed to stop treating the pursuit of pleasure as an escape from pain, suffering, and death.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
05/19/20

Was the Son of God a Sinner?

I am told that it is preposterous and wicked to call the Son of God a cursed sinner. I answer: If you deny that He is a condemned sinner, you are forced to deny that Christ died.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
05/18/20

Bible Stories Too Dangerous for Sunday Morning

Dangerous Bible stories show us a God who has no problem whatsoever using the muck and mire of our worst days to make his progress toward his good goal happen.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
05/17/20

Cliché Preaching

Cliché preaching may be symptomatic of shallow, consumerist culture, perpetuating a problem rather than the solution.
Michael Berg
Michael Berg
05/14/20

Understanding Paul's Allegory of Hagar and Sarah

The point is that the whole lot was wicked. And so were the Galatian Christians. And so are we.
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
05/12/20

Judgment Day

As we stand before our Lord dead in our transgressions and guilt, Jesus pronounces His judgment upon us. He absolves us.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
05/05/20

Safe and Sound in the Shadow of the Almighty

Jesus’s followers aren’t ostriches who bury their heads in the sand. That’s not helpful or hopeful for anyone. Resting from life’s trials and troubles comes in the remembrance of the One who is with you in the middle of all of them.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
05/04/20

Anxious, Fearful, and Righteous

How we feel is so often conditioned upon what we are experiencing. Faith grabs hold of something outside our experience, something objective and true that is not changed by circumstance.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
04/30/20

Jesus Drains The Cup So We May Drink

When we proclaim Jesus' death we are, at the same time, preaching that this cup from which we drink is the cup of salvation for all who believe and receive it.
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
04/20/20

Move or Die

"Move or die" is one of those “laws” we don’t like, but we have to admit, as harsh as it sounds, it is good for us. It helps us. Just don’t apply it to my faith.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
04/16/20

Remembering What God Does

True strength, wisdom, and understanding come to us from God. His Spirit gives us wisdom and understanding through the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
04/13/20

Doubting Thomas’ Unfettered Welcome

Every time the Scriptures are opened, we are repeating this scene. Every time the gospel is preached, we are replicating a moment wherein the faithless ones are greeted by their faithful Lord.
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