1. What grace is this? It’s grace from Christ, who often seizes us when we least expect it, even through the hands of His enemies.
  2. Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.
  3. God is mercy. He was mercy then. He’s mercy now. God showed them His glory, if only a reflection, in the face of Moses.
  4. Excerpt #3 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  5. I may feel today that the Lord has not found me, but in fact he has – he is intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  6. Excerpt #2 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  7. Excerpt #1 from the new book “Withertongue Emails" by Donavon Riley.
  8. The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.
  9. If we think God’s power, love and beauty are reserved merely for the glories of Transfiguration, then we have not understood the Father; we have not understood divine revelation.
  10. Is the serpent in Genesis 3 just a snake or Satan? Does the Hebrew refer to "the satan" or "Satan"? And does it make a difference? Let's take a look at the Old Testament, early Jewish literature, and the New Testament for the answers.
  11. Here, robed in Word and Sacrament, is your King, infant though He be, come out of eternity into time to bring you out of time and into eternity.
  12. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!