1. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.
  2. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  3. The story of salvation is the true story of God doing his unexpected work of salvation for us.
  4. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  5. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  6. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  7. This is an excerpt from the introduction of “Common Places in Christian Theology: A Curated Collection of Essays from Lutheran Quarterly,” edited by Mark Mattes (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  8. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  9. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  10. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  11. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  12. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.