1. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  2. 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.
  3. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  4. Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
  5. We bring nothing with us that contributes to the preaching or the hearing of God’s promise to us.
  6. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  7. The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.
  8. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the fifth installment of that series.
  9. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.
  10. I trust that because of the gospel, God will continue to mend what I, in my sin, continue to break.
  11. Jesus does not put us on trial and make us pay for our own sin, but he, himself, is put on trial in our place.
  12. Make no mistake, sinners are in fact being pursued by a most hideous beast called sin, death, and the devil, unleashed and striking continuously.