Just as trick-or-treaters arrive at doorsteps as beggars, we come to the Lord’s table with nothing to offer but our sin and need for forgiveness.
More certain than death or taxes and more certain than “anything else in all creation” is the fact that God loves you.

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The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
Paul calls them the fruits of the Spirit after all
Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
My words are peanuts compared to the porterhouse of God’s Word.
A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
1517 would not exist without the leadership, friendship, and faithfulness of Pastor Ron Hodel.
God excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.