When we consider our own end, it will not bring us into a final wrestling match with the messenger of God, but into the embrace of the Messiah of God.
01/29/26
What do such callings look like? They are ordinary and everyday.
01/28/26
This is the third in a series meant to let the Christian tradition speak for itself, the way it has carried Christians through long winters, confusion, and joy for centuries.
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04/02/19
When we preach Jesus crucified for the sin of the world, Jesus crucified to put away God’s harsh judgment, that good news creates faith
03/31/19
Where contrition is evident, the conscience has already been prodded, piqued, finally terrified. More Law only serves to confirm the lie this person is already at risk of believing: that the last work of the conscience is also God’s last word. But God’s last word is the word of absolution, not the confirmation of the conscience’s testimony, but now its contradiction.
03/27/19
In our own lives, we might find that the Law is not an alien word, whether we call it our conscience or our values, our Holy Writ, or our municipality’s laws and regulations
03/26/19
Martin Luther knew something about economics. Well, God’s economics anyway.
03/26/19
No matter what happens, whether failure, pain, or discouragement, Jesus says, “Come to me... and I will give you rest"
03/22/19
If I’m going to join your church, there’s some things I’ll need to know first. I need to know whether you practice a Christianity that’s primarily a to-do list.
03/14/19
With these words, Jesus at the same time acknowledges that earthly government is both divinely sanctioned and, at the same time, not to be conflated with the kingdom of God.
03/12/19
This quest to justify my existence can end because I have been justified by God who gave up heaven to be with me!
02/27/19
The danger was not necessarily inside the city. Nor was it from an obvious source. Outside the walls of Thyatira, lay a small shrine of white stone.
02/27/19
God is used to working with colorful figures. One of the most colorful in the Bible is Balaam. Hailing from Mesopotamia, Balaam was what we might call a shaman or a soothsayer.
02/26/19
Holding to Jesus’ teaching while denying His divinity presents a host of complications that make it difficult to take one and leave the other.
02/25/19
Your eternal salvation isn’t dependent on performance or effort. Well, not your performance anyway...
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