1. This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
  2. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  3. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  4. Past, present, and future are tied together in Christ.
  5. This is an excerpt from the introduction of “Common Places in Christian Theology: A Curated Collection of Essays from Lutheran Quarterly,” edited by Mark Mattes (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  6. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  7. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  8. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  9. Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
  10. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  11. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  12. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.