A Review of
By Amy Mantravadi
05/21/25
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A Review of "Raised in Splendor: The Hope of Glorification for a Secular Age by Jason B. Alligood

Alligood is at pains to stress that glorification is not the result of our own efforts any more than sanctification or justification.
Gone Fishin'
Aaron Boerst
Aaron Boerst
05/20/25

Gone Fishin'

Forgiveness from Jesus is always surprising to us.
On Pornography, Hunger, and Holy Rescue
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
05/19/25

On Pornography, Hunger, and Holy Rescue

The Christ who rescues does not wait for you to be clean. He comes to clean you. He does not need your strength. He brings his own.

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Chad Bird
Chad Bird
03/03/20

I Can’t Wait to Get out of Heaven

When talking about God’s ultimate destination for us, we’ve grown sloppy in our language, nearsighted in our gaze, and un-Easter in our hope. We act and speak as if dying and going to heaven is what the faith is all about. It is most emphatically not.
Kyle G. Jones
Kyle G. Jones
03/02/20

Where Jesus Is Found

Where our sins are forgiven, there God in Christ is to be found.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
03/02/20

Jesus Is Love

God and love are synonymous. Any talk about love that is not talk about Jesus is, at most, a half-truth.
RJ Grunewald
RJ Grunewald
02/26/20

No Approaching God Without Christ

For what end does the Law exist? The Law exposes us so that we might find the remedy in the person and work of Jesus.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/25/20

The Misunderstood Story of Bear Attacks, a Bald Prophet, and Forty-Two Mouthy “Kids”

This misunderstood story is not a moralistic tale about bald prophets and child-eating bears, designed to teach youths to honor their elders and preachers. Rather, it's a brief glimpse into the age-old war that began in a garden and ended at an empty tomb.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
02/25/20

The Suicide Prophet

Sometimes we have to strain hard to hear words deeper than our hearts. Words not from inside, but outside. Words from God, not our own self-spun narratives.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
02/24/20

We All Share A Common Hope

We all share a common hope. The same hope that converted Augustine, drove Martin Luther out of the monastery and calls horrible sinners to new life every day.
Philip Bartelt
Philip Bartelt
02/21/20

Remembering Anselm of Canterbury

Though not without his faults, Anselm of Canterbury is unquestionably one of the great theologians of the last millennium.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
02/20/20

The True and Better One

When Jesus preaches the gospel, he is preaching himself. Jesus’s good news is the good news about himself.
Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
02/19/20

Glimpses of Glory: Transfiguration and Cross

Transfiguration is like a farewell party for a dear friend drafted and going off to war. We celebrate all that has brought us there, we rejoice in our friend, and yet we know we are sending him off to great danger.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
02/18/20

Who Did It? What Happened? Who Is to Blame?

We're ALL sinners in need of a Savior. We're all saints whose Savior forgives ALL our sin. We're all the same in relation to Christ crucified for the sin of the world.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/18/20

Where’s the Sunday School Picture of Jesus Crushing Skulls?

He is no sweet and sappy, romanticized and Disneyfied, cartoonish Christ. He is ferocious, free, untamed, and heaven-bent on not leaving the battlefield until the war is won and he makes his enemies a footstool for his feet.
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