We can’t remove our crosses or the reality of our deaths. Only Jesus can
People everywhere, every day, feel God’s wrath—and not as merely an afterlife threat but as a present reality.
Faith, for Peter, is not suspended in religious abstraction. It is tied to something that happened in time and space.

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The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos
Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
Luther's emphasis on the need for sinners to have preachers who can provide them with the comfort and support they need for their faith in Jesus Christ and life is as relevant today as it was in his time.
Dear hearers of the word of God, you are finished. You cannot be the same now. All that is ended, over.
I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
I can guarantee you that when Paul was overtaken by the Spirit and inspired to write these words, he did not have in mind your local school's boys' basketball tournament.
Predestination, Jim knew, is no longer a frightening doctrine of mystery when you understand that God makes his choice about you in the simple word of God, given from one sinner to another.