1. Forgiveness without God

    book
    09/05/22
    10 mins
    read
    By David Clay
    Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
    Forgiveness without God

  2. Our Dissident Identity

    book
    08/29/22
    19 mins
    read
    By John Bombaro
    Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
    Our Dissident Identity

  3. Sermon on Luke 11:24–26

    book
    08/25/22
    8 mins
    read
    By Gerhard Forde
    Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
    Sermon on Luke 11:24–26

  4. 1 John 1:5-10: The Reality of the Light

    book
    08/12/22
    15 mins
    read
    By Gretchen Ronnevik
    God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
    1 John 1:5-10: The Reality of the Light

  5. Christ’s Comfort in Our Crisis

    book
    08/04/22
    30 mins
    read
    By Bradley Gray
    Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
    Christ’s Comfort in Our Crisis

  6. The Failure of the Modern Apologist

    book
    08/03/22
    10 mins
    read
    By Cindy Koch
    Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?
    The Failure of the Modern Apologist

  7. Faith, Hope, and Love

    book
    08/01/22
    21 mins
    read
    By Steven Paulson
    Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
    Faith, Hope, and Love

  8. The Trinity Is History

    book
    06/10/22
    16 mins
    read
    By Ken Sundet Jones
    The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
    The Trinity Is History

  9. Fading into Ordinary, Ragtag Christianity after Pentecost

    book
    06/06/22
    9 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    After the big, splashy, exciting day of Pentecost in Acts 2, church life faded into the ordinary life of ragtag sinners encountering the God of the cross coming to them in seemingly unawesome ways. What can we learn from this?
    Fading into Ordinary, Ragtag Christianity after Pentecost

  10. Not Drunk As You Suppose

    book
    06/03/22
    12 mins
    read
    By Ken Sundet Jones
    That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.
    Not Drunk As You Suppose

  11. Stay With Us

    book
    05/26/22
    8 mins
    read
    By Kathy Morales
    Just as the disciples on the road to Emmaus recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread, so we, through the working of the Holy Spirit, recognize our Lord in the Word and Sacraments.
    Stay With Us

  12. Mere Christianity at 70

    book
    05/18/22
    10 mins
    read
    By Pete Lange
    Armed with great analogies, airtight logic, and razor sharp wit, Lewis keeps you spellbound from one chapter to another as you find yourself going “further up and further in.”
    Mere Christianity at 70
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