By Donavon Riley

01/21/26

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Why Christian Tradition? Why Confession

Confession isn’t a detour in the liturgy. It’s the doorway.

When Religion Becomes Obsolete, Christ Does Not

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Mark Mattes

01/20/26

When Religion Becomes Obsolete, Christ Does Not

American religion did not become optional because the gospel failed. It became optional because religion slowly redefined itself around usefulness.

Bradley Gray

01/19/26

Behold the Lamb

The Passover wasn’t just Israel’s story; it’s ours.

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Donavon Riley

03/14/18

Clumsy, Messy, Children of the Promise

Whenever I read the Genesis account of Abraham, I’m more impressed that he’s often a clumsy, mess of a man than that it’s “faith that’s accounted to him as righteousness.”

Bruce Hillman

03/06/18

The Resurrection is Not Greater than the Cross

We all look forward to Lent’s conclusion and the celebration of Resurrection Sunday. This is the Sunday of victory and joy as the Church enters into the reality that Christ has defeated death and hell, declared victory over such enemies and set history on its final course of consummation.

Cindy Koch

03/05/18

The Hardest Part of Being a Christian

We are no longer controlled by sin as He moves our lips to speak love and forgiveness. We are passive as He acts out His words and His salvation for us.

Zack James Cole

02/26/18

Knowing is Half the Battle

I cannot recall how many times I sang along to this theme song, punching and kicking as a kid in the 80s. But much of my desire to join the Marine Corps had its genesis in the 80s cartoon “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.”

Cindy Koch

02/21/18

Create In Me a Clean Heart

Christ exchanged His excellent love, His wonderful heart, for my shameful adultery with you.

Cindy Koch

01/19/18

Sunshine, Rainbows, and Screaming Babies

When God adds His promise to creation, we understand a greater reality than what we see: Light given; Light that sustains life; Light that will end up living in the midst of his people forever.

Cindy Koch

01/10/18

Walking the Boring Path?

We are dangerously good at focusing on our exciting, or boring, walk of faith.

Daniel Deen

01/03/18

United in Suffering, Distracted by What To Do About It (Part 2)

Only a god could be wise. We are seekers, lovers of divine wisdom, but it is forever beyond our grasp due to human limitation.

Chad Bird

12/31/17

God's New Year's Resolution

Jesus tears down every “but” that people try to build between us and God. He died and rose for us, and—not but—He makes Himself our Lord and Savior.

Donavon Riley

12/12/17

Blessed Is The Man

Blessedness comes to us camouflaged as simple earthly words, water, bread and wine.

Kelsi Klembara

12/06/17

Something Worth Hoping For

“Putting hope in the cross of Christ means putting hope outside of anything – mentally, physically or even spiritually – you do.”

Daniel Deen

11/29/17

United in Suffering, Distracted by What To Do About It (Part I)

We are all sojourners in a perilous cosmos, what is sometimes conceptualized as the theology of the pilgrim.

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