The Answer to Our Hosanna
By John Bortulin
03/30/26
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The Answer to Our Hosanna

Indeed, Jesus is our Father's answer to our Hosanna.
The Hermit and the Blackbird
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
03/27/26

The Hermit and the Blackbird

Lent exists because we are forgetful creatures. We forget how hungry we really are.
Getting Over Your Moral Superiority
Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
03/26/26

Getting Over Your Moral Superiority

The Pharisee valued fasting and giving tithes, but could not find value in his fellow sinner.

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1517 Staff
1517 Staff
03/13/20

Paul and the Resurrection: Q&A with Author Joshua Pagán

The newest book from 1517 Publishing, Paul and the Resurrection: Testing the Apostolic Testimony, was released this week. In this article, we asked the book's author, Joshua Pagán, to answer a series of questions about the book, so we could better understand his approach, his arguments, and how his book helps us better understand the resurrection of Jesus as the foundational confession of the church.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
03/12/20

Dear Death, What Has Become of Your Spear?

Paul says that the power of sin is the law. The more clearly we understand the law, the more sin oppresses and stings us.
Steven A. Hein
Steven A. Hein
03/09/20

Gathering up Our Dust During Lent

Ashes and dust do not need the services of spiritual EMTs; we need a Second Adam from whom we regain life itself.
Joshua Miller
Joshua Miller
03/06/20

Martin Niemöller: Controversial Confessor

On this day in 1984, Lutheran pastor, Martin Niemöller, a leader in the anti-Nazi Confessing Church, died. He left behind a controversial legacy. How should we regard him today, thirty-six years after his death? Was he a hero? Was he a villain?
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
03/03/20

The Anchor of John 3:16

Christ teaches that we are not lost, but have eternal life. That God has so loved us that he allowed the ransom to cost him his only beloved child.
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
02/27/20

God Gives Us More Than We Can Handle

What the law is powerless to do, Jesus accomplishes for us. Jesus delivers what the law demands.
RJ Grunewald
RJ Grunewald
02/26/20

No Approaching God Without Christ

For what end does the Law exist? The Law exposes us so that we might find the remedy in the person and work of Jesus.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
02/25/20

The Suicide Prophet

Sometimes we have to strain hard to hear words deeper than our hearts. Words not from inside, but outside. Words from God, not our own self-spun narratives.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
02/25/20

If God Would Just Choose Someone Else

The end of the pursuit isn't regeneration, but degeneration. We're fighting fire with bottles of gasoline.
Philip Bartelt
Philip Bartelt
02/21/20

Remembering Anselm of Canterbury

Though not without his faults, Anselm of Canterbury is unquestionably one of the great theologians of the last millennium.
Pete Lange
Pete Lange
02/18/20

The Pilgrim's Promise

Ultimately the Christian life isn't about progress, it's about promise--the Pilgrim's Promise.
Dan van Voorhis
Dan van Voorhis
02/14/20

Redeeming St. Valentine

How did we get love and romance associated with Valentine and his likely mid-February death?
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