Why did the church dedicate a day to St. Michael anyway? Who is he, and what does he do?
09/26/25
The Antichrist offers another continual presence. It is every whisper that tempts us toward autonomy, that tells us to carry it alone, that insists suffering is meaningless.
09/25/25
He is the God who always is, whose Word is true, and never fails. He is a God who acts and always does what he says he’s going to do.
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01/27/20
We don't have to worry about making progress towards God because he's already come to us, named us as his own, and promises to never leave or forsake us.
01/24/20
The following is an excerpt from "Finding Christ in the Straw" written by Robert M. Hiller (1517 Publishing, 2020).
01/23/20
Even when God doesn’t take away the troubled waters of our life, he is the Bridge we can lean on no matter what storms may come our way.
01/22/20
We sing, and in so doing, we are blessed as we are instilled with the word of God in word and song.
01/15/20
From all accounts, everyone in Nazareth would have just thought of Jesus as a very good boy who obeyed his parents and worked hard with his father as a tekton’s apprentice in the family trade.
01/06/20
Having the assurance that perfect righteousness has already been gifted to you is, perhaps, the leading spiritual scuffle in which every believer is entangled.
01/03/20
In the midst of the Word of God being spoken, she felt for the first time God had revealed Himself to her, not as the terrifying judge she feared, but as the loving and tender father He is.
01/02/20
The following is an excerpt from “Faithless to Fearless” written by David Andersen (1517 Publishing, 2019).
01/02/20
God has closed the religious gym. We don't have to show up for church determined, this year, finally, to make a change for the better.
01/01/20
Looking back on the year, the narrative we’re fed is that we should be able to show how much we’ve grown, how much we’ve done, all the successes we’ve had, how improved we are.
12/30/19
The real power of his hymn comes from the fact that Bonhoeffer does not offer a rosy picture of life or any of the tropes so typical of cheap piety that tell us that everything is always right, that things happen for a reason, and that we should try to stay positive.
12/30/19
Into the suffocating prison of sorrow, God sends his Breath, his Holy Spirit to help us. We may suffer, but we will not be alone.
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