AI Can't Save You
By Erick Sorensen
06/17/26
9mins

AI Can't Save You

Your God is not artificially intelligent, but the source of all intelligence (including yours).
No One Builds Alone: Why the Future of Lutheranism Must Be Built Together
Russ Lackey
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Mark Mattes
Mark Mattes
06/15/26

No One Builds Alone: Why the Future of Lutheranism Must Be Built Together

The church is not renewed when one pastor tries to do the work of the whole body. The church is renewed when Christ’s body begins to act like a body again.
Learning God's Grand Story through the Chronicles of Narnia
Sam P. Schuldheisz
Sam P. Schuldheisz
06/13/26

Learning God's Grand Story through the Chronicles of Narnia

This is what Christian catechesis does; it turns the knobs of the Scriptures and throws the doors of God’s word wide open to tell us the story of salvation.

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Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
11/07/25

You are not weak. You are at war.

Resurrection does not start in sunlight. It begins in the dark.
Matthew L. Rubinstein
Matthew L. Rubinstein
11/04/25

Grace in the Gap

The acrostic psalms do not hold because of their perfect structure. Nor do our lives.
Adam Francisco
Adam Francisco
10/23/25

When Faith Becomes Blind: The Problem with Fideism

When faith seeks understanding—when belief is grounded in revelation and open to the light of reason—truth can travel.
Steven Paulson
Steven Paulson
10/16/25

An Introduction to The Bondage of the Will: The Preached and Unpreached God

This is the fifth installment in our article series, “An Introduction to the Bondage of the Will,” written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Bondage of the Will.
Caleb Keith
Caleb Keith
10/15/25

An Introduction to the Bondage of the Will: Election and the Word

This is the fourth installment in our article series, “An Introduction to the Bondage of the Will,” written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Bondage of the Will.
Jason Oakland
Jason Oakland
10/06/25

Big Questions About Faith, Love, and, Salvation

Faith takes God at his word and holds his promise to be true for me because I know God would not lie to me.
Adam Francisco
Adam Francisco
10/03/25

Not Done in a Corner: Why Christians Must Resist Fideism

Fideistic Christianity may look bold, but it is fragile.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
09/25/25

God's Sufficiency in the Face of Our Inadequacy

He is the God who always is, whose Word is true, and never fails. He is a God who acts and always does what he says he’s going to do.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
09/12/25

The Deliverer Who Doesn't Run Away

Nothing good happens when you get ahead of God and take matters into your own hands.
1517 Guest Contributor
1517 Guest Contributor
09/11/25

When Evil Roars, Christ Still Reigns

To confess Christ crucified and risen as the only hope in a world that has lost its mind to wickedness and rage.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
09/10/25

An Excerpt from Untamed Prayers: Psalm 86

The following entries are excerpts from Chad Bird’s upcoming book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of the Psalms (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 191-192.
Delwyn Campbell
Delwyn Campbell
09/01/25

The Word: God's Message to Us

The Word seems like it is so little, like five barley loaves and two small fish, but it is all that God used to create the heavens and the earth.
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