The 1529 Protest of Speyer
By Amy Mantravadi
04/17/26
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The 1529 Protest of Speyer

"Every one must stand and give account before God for himself; and no one can excuse himself by the action or decision of another, whether less or more.”
A Review of
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
04/16/26

A Review of "God Meets Us In Our Suffering"

God Meets is the rare cancer book (and as above, I use that term advisedly) that addresses both the judgment God places on human creatures in the Garden (death) and the hard road anyone walks toward that end (100% of us).
Resurrection is the Gospel
John W. Hoyum
John W. Hoyum
04/15/26

Resurrection is the Gospel

The testimony of the apostles is not an escapist message in which Christians are redeemed by leaving bodily life behind.

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Chad Bird
Chad Bird
01/28/19

Forgiving Others Is Not All About You: When Forgiveness Mutates into Self-Help

Just as we believe ourselves to be forgiven because God sees us in Christ, so to forgive others is to see them as God sees them in Christ. To forgive, in other words, is to put God’s eyes in our eyes and our eyes in God’s eyes.
Dan van Voorhis
Dan van Voorhis
01/28/19

Why Ok is Everything

Despite the death all around us, the death that is assured us, we know there is a way out.
1517 Staff
1517 Staff
01/24/19

A Year in Review & What’s Next for 1517

2018 in Perspective
Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
12/20/18

A Gift No One Trusts You With

A friend recently told me they had never seen the movie A Christmas Story. “What?!” I exclaimed. “Well, you need to fix that this year.”
Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
12/07/18

Love Cannot Be Hopeless

This blog is a part of our Advent series on the hope we find in, through and given by Christ. Each week’s installment will look at hope from a different perspective with special emphasis on corresponding passages of Scripture.
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
11/20/18

Beggars Can’t Be Choosers

He was a beggar on the streets. And, he was as good as dead if he didn't receive a blessing. The words, "you're cursed" haunted his mind.
Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
11/19/18

Enough is Enough

When we say in the benediction, “The LORD make His face shine on you,” grace is what we mean.
Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
11/13/18

The Mirror Never Lies

The Gospel is our freedom from sin. It is Christ in the mirror, Christ for me and for you.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
11/08/18

A Cynic Walks into a Church

The more that we hear the law, the more we recognize others as those who, like us, are torn and tattered by the wounds of sin and brokenness.
David Rufner
David Rufner
11/08/18

Betrayal and the Plunge

We take what we perceive to be freedom and turn it into a new credo, a new law, an idol to be lifted up and lived out.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
11/02/18

How Luther Pointed Me to Christ in the Old Testament

Jesus is the Word of God. God’s Word—on two legs (John 1:14). I’d read it in the first chapter of John’s Gospel many, many times.
Joel Hess
Joel Hess
10/24/18

The Gospel is Only for Consumers

Perhaps the answer to creating a healthier church and a more invested people is found in preaching more clearly the full freeing Gospel.
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