Confession isn’t a detour in the liturgy. It’s the doorway.
American religion did not become optional because the gospel failed. It became optional because religion slowly redefined itself around usefulness.
The Passover wasn’t just Israel’s story; it’s ours.

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I spend a lot of time talking to people in coffee shops. Some share my Christian faith, some are exploring and questioning faith and others have left the church, having had a crisis of faith.
There is a mirror that we Christians look into with daily repentance.
An orphan girl lives a monotonous life filled with loneliness serving as a slave to her stepmother and stepsisters.
We sinners share a common problem when it comes to Jesus’ parables. We read them with an eye to our own righteousness.
The conversation between four year-old Jackson and his mom in the car after dropping off his siblings at school was all-too-typical.
“My Old Man” is the story of a single father, a grossly flawed character, told through the eyes of his son who can’t help but love him.
Yet, just as the Jews had two choices, true God or no God, the Christian has the same, true Jesus or no Jesus.
Abraham didn’t understand God very well (at least not early on). I don’t say that as a dig against the Patriarch. I don’t think any of us understand God very well either.
God in Jesus takes off your shirt of shame, your bitterness, your anger, your guilt, your hopelessness, and drapes these rags on himself.
If we are saved by faith, if it is by faith that we have life in His name, what do the sacraments have to do with it? The answer is: everything.
In a world so wired by law and rules, judgement is everywhere.
I believe it’s no small charge to assert that there’s a massive problem in the majority of America’s pulpits.