1. Our Weekly Epiphany: Boring?

    book
    01/18/22
    15 mins
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    By Wade Johnston
    Here, robed in Word and Sacrament, is your King, infant though He be, come out of eternity into time to bring you out of time and into eternity.
    Our Weekly Epiphany: Boring?

  2. Peace for Simeon, and Us

    book
    01/14/22
    10 mins
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    By Wade Johnston
    Our children are not our own, but even more, our children are born in need. They are sinful, from conception and from birth.
    Peace for Simeon, and Us

  3. Jesus' Baptism

    book
    01/10/22
    13 mins
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    By Wade Johnston
    You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.
    Jesus' Baptism

  4. Circumcision of Our Lord

    book
    01/01/22
    10 mins
    read
    By Wade Johnston
    Christ has received the mark of law that we might be marked with the gospel, with the sign of his holy cross on our heads and hearts as redeemed children of God.
    Circumcision of Our Lord

  5. The Name of Jesus

    book
    12/30/21
    7 mins
    read
    By Wade Johnston
    While the world and other religions might be fine with considering him everything but, the foremost thing our Jesus came to be and still remains is Jesus, Savior.
    The Name of Jesus

  6. Consider Jesus

    book
    12/15/21
    11 mins
    read
    By Wade Johnston
    Moses was sent to keep the house in order, but this Child is sent to bring the house home, and you are part of that house, the household of God.
    Consider Jesus

  7. The Lord Will Relent

    book
    12/08/21
    12 mins
    read
    By Wade Johnston
    The thought of losing even one of those for whom his Son died pains God beyond belief, and the angels rejoice when even one of his children repents.
    The Lord Will Relent

  8. The Days Are Coming

    book
    12/02/21
    12 mins
    read
    By Wade Johnston
    “The days are coming,” and God said it. God, who kept his promise that Christ would come at Christmas.
    The Days Are Coming

  9. Justification and the Sinner-Saint

    book
    08/17/20
    13 mins
    read
    By Wade Johnston
    This is an excerpt adapted from “Let the Bird Fly” written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
    Justification and the Sinner-Saint

  10. Beware the Fearmonger

    book
    06/06/17
    8 mins
    read
    By Wade Johnston
    It seems like the sky is falling every other day now. From politics to culture to religion to about anything else, there’s one purported cataclysm after another on the horizon.
    Beware the Fearmonger
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