We can bring our troubles, griefs, sorrows, and sins to Jesus, who meets us smack dab in the middle of our messy mob.
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.

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Although theirs is an impressive show of faith, the display of God’s faithfulness to them is far greater. After all, faith is only as strong as the object in which it is placed.
The tragedy of this parable is not the failure to serve. It is the failure to truly know your Savior.
Now more than ever, it's good to take a closer look at the Christian confession about evil, pain, and suffering.
Good works do not make a Christian, do not secure the grace of God and blot out our sins, they do not merit heaven.
Whoever your president is, you have a King. A King who elected you.
Faithful preachers should remain steadfast in the biblical categories and terminology and preach the reality of death.
The parable is harsh. It judges. If you do not believe, you will not be saved. But let us pause for a moment and think about why Jesus is telling the parable.
This earth is not the place where your promise is to be found. Rejoice because the kingdom of God comes to you!
Jesus breaks through our barriers in His beatitudes. He shatters our conceptions of the blessed life and opens the Kingdom of God to all people.
God's city is beautiful because God has constructed it to offer eternal safety to all weary sinners.
Jesus will strengthen and encourage us because he is true life, and life has defeated death.
Satan and the old Adam don't want Jesus to bear our crosses for us because that means we can't claim that we've done anything to merit God's mercy and salvation.