1. 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.
  2. 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!
  3. 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.
  4. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  5. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  6. 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.
  7. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  8. 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.
  9. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  10. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  11. If the season of Lent is a journey, Holy Week is the destination.
  12. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.