1. Bo Giertz attained infamy in Sweden for a humble adherence to unpopular, orthodox practice and doctrine.
  2. God and Jeremiah may have been looking at the same person, but they were seeing very different things.
  3. It turns out that when Elijah battled depression, God sent someone to just be with him. To comfort him.
  4. Ascertaining the what and how of the Church greatly factor into the very purpose of the Church, that is, they essentially answer the question why the Church?
  5. Questions of our purpose and significance as a church abound with fewer and fewer people in the pews.
  6. This is an edited excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  7. This article comes to us from 1517 guest contributor, Karen Stenberg.
  8. Your forgiveness means you are in God’s favor, and no matter what tomorrow brings, God’s face is shining upon you, and he is gracious to you. Whether you live or you die, you belong to the Lord.
  9. Has the modern world taken too strong a dose of the gospel as its inheritance from the Reformation?
  10. Love continues to gently but endlessly pursue the narrator, despite his persistence in pulling away in the opposite direction.
  11. Now more than ever, it's good to take a closer look at the Christian confession about evil, pain, and suffering.
  12. The Gospel is gift, pure and simple. It is backwards. It is upside down. It is foolish. And as long as people are sinners, it is as relevant as ever.