Peace Be With You
By Jason Oakland
07/11/25
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Peace Be With You

‘Peace’ means “I have forgiven all those sins against me.”
An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
07/10/25

An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress

This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.
Inception and the Paradox of Grace
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
07/09/25

Inception and the Paradox of Grace

Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.

All Articles

Philip Bartelt
Philip Bartelt
07/10/24

The Art of Dying

This great victory, the true defeat of death, I receive not by my thinking, willing, or working, but simply by believing.
Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
06/27/24

Rethinking the Robber

This is an excerpt from chapter 6 of Scandalous Stories by Daniel Emery Price and Erick Sorensen (1517 Publishing 2018).
John T. Pless
John T. Pless
06/21/24

Confession and Absolution

This is an excerpt from “Confession and Absolution” by John T. Pless in Common Places in Theology: A Curated Collection of Essays from Lutheran Quarterly, edited by Mark Mattes, (1517 Publishing 2023).
Amy Mantravadi
Amy Mantravadi
06/17/24

Johann Spangenberg on Living Well

This is a companion article to “Johann Spangenberg on Dying Well”
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
06/11/24

Relationship Goals

Dispel some of that darkness bottled up inside you, with the grace first shared to us by Christ that is now ours to share with those around us.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
05/22/24

A Hinge Between Addict-life and Christ-life

Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
05/21/24

Forgiveness That Can't Be Contained

Instead of a death sentence, those brothers hear the words of deliverance.
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
05/20/24

For the Ones that Remain

I have to believe that grace - God’s grace - will be waiting on the other side.
Nicholas Hopman
Nicholas Hopman
05/16/24

Martin Luther's Reformation Hymns

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of these early Lutheran hymns – and their physical availability in hymnals – in the piety of common people living in Lutheran towns and territories.
Amy Mantravadi
Amy Mantravadi
05/15/24

The Battle of Frankenhausen and the Ruin of Thomas Müntzer

The Battle of Frankenhausen stands as a warning for what can happen when we abandon the Word God has given us and chase after some vision of our own imaginations.
Gage Jordan
Gage Jordan
05/14/24

In The Wild: Church for Those People

The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
Amy Mantravadi
Amy Mantravadi
05/10/24

The Threefold Justification of the Resurrection

The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.
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