The gospel isn’t for the strong but people who know they aren’t.
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03/20/26
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.
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Good works do not give us a righteousness that exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees. Rather, good works result from righteousness given by the good work of the Righteous One on the cross.
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My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
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Epiphany celebrates that we have not been left in our hearts’ cold darkness and this spoiled creation.
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This year, I’m more excited for Epiphany than I am for Christmas.
01/01/21
Any good work we perform among you; any doctrine we write upon your heart – that is God’s own work.
12/28/20
God has forgiven us our trespasses in Christ Jesus and it is his grace that begins the transformation process making us into little forgivers.
12/24/20
We’ve hung on every whisper of hope that this way of life would end and a new one would rise to take its place.
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Christian peace is not the absence of problems, but it is the presence of God amid our pain and sorrows.
12/20/20
Luther’s Christmas sermons remind us that unless Christ is proclaimed FOR YOU, He is not preached.
12/18/20
The way through loneliness will lie in the blessing of solitude and the care of God.
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The well-meaning advice “time heals all wounds” is offensively false when we confront the overwhelming evidence that the constants in our lives are death, taxes, and suffering.
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Praying this prayer every day reveals this painful truth, I am guilty in need of forgiveness every day.
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