1. When properly distinguishing law and gospel in the Word of God, it is important to use the God-given gift and abilities of the imagination as your ears.
  2. If we believe that ours is truly the greatest story ever told, then we must share that story in creative ways and allow it to change the desires of its hearers.
  3. Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
  4. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  5. Below is a compilation of some of our staff and contributor’s recommended reads for this summer (based, of course, on what we are reading). Let us know if you find a book you love!
  6. The Holy Spirit isn’t so much the one you look at, as he is the one who turns you from looking at yourself and your sin to your Savior, Jesus.
  7. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  8. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  9. In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.
  10. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  11. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.