1. To “trust in God in trial” means we fight our battles by kneeling and praying to “the Holy One of Israel,” who works out our deliverance by himself.
  2. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  3. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  4. On Saturday, July 16, Luke Gabriel Bird died in a hiking accident in Chile. He was a midshipman in the United States Naval Academy. He is our son. Here are some reflections on his life, his faith, and his Lord.
  5. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  6. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  7. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
  8. The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.
  9. Because of Jesus, God always hears our prayers, and he always responds to them in love–regardless of the quality or quantity of the one speaking them.
  10. FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
  11. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the fourth installment of that series.