For Us and For Our Salvation
By Amy Mantravadi
12/02/25
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For Us and For Our Salvation

I find myself returning to the Nicene Creed this Advent season
An Excerpt from Coming Home for Christmas: Advent in Isaiah Devotional
1517 Staff
1517 Staff
12/01/25

An Excerpt from Coming Home for Christmas: Advent in Isaiah Devotional

This is an excerpt from this year’s 1517 Advent Devotional.
Recovering Thanksgiving
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
11/27/25

Recovering Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving, then, is not just about plenty. It is about redemption.

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Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
11/10/22

Jesus, Thank You

The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
Gretchen Ronnevik
Gretchen Ronnevik
10/28/22

The Spirit Never Stops Testifying to Christ: 1 John 5:5-12

Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
10/27/22

The Otherworldly Vision

Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
10/25/22

How to Define Christian Community

There is no true life and meaningful community apart from forgiveness.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
10/20/22

How Firm Our Foundation

Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
Tyler Cronkright
Tyler Cronkright
10/10/22

The Most Famous Person You Have Never Heard Of

Paul calls them the fruits of the Spirit after all
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
09/19/22

How Can An Addict Be Born Again?

When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
09/08/22

Peanut Skins and Porterhouses

My words are peanuts compared to the porterhouse of God’s Word.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
09/07/22

A Dove More Powerful Than An Eagle

The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
09/06/22

The Church Is Already Woke

Only by faith in Christ are we truly awake.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
08/29/22

Our Dissident Identity

Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
08/25/22

Sermon on Luke 11:24–26

Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
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