This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life (1517 Publishing, 2025). Sinner Saint is available today from 1517 Publishing.
05/12/25
On its journey from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, this special place helps us understand the broader arc of Christian history, which goes on until Christ's return.
05/09/25
We needn’t fear statistics and studies as palm readings into a certain future. God is God, and his Spirit is alive through his Word.
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07/02/21
Jesus did not come because we had our act together. He came because we couldn’t get our act together.
07/01/21
The giver of life, the source of joy, stands weeping together with the human family as they grieve under the curse of sin.
06/27/21
Our leaders, our pastors, our priests, our teachers, all have feet of clay, just as leaders in Israel did. We do not put our faith in them, even in the ones—perhaps *especially* the ones—in whom we are inclined to have great expectations. They preach the Messiah but are not the Messiah.
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06/27/21
The Christian sermon is Gospel preaching. We only preach the Gospel. Only the Gospel is the sermon, notwithstanding necessary admonishments of law and requisite exhortations toward sanctification.
06/26/21
Ezekiel is not called/sent out to be “successful” in his prophetic ministry—he is sent out to be faithful!
06/26/21
The God whose power is made perfect in our weakness is the God who, in weakness, saved you from sin, death, and the Devil.
06/26/21
Jesus will bring good news, send His disciples to bring good news, and, in His death and resurrection, become good news for all.
06/26/21
Take away the communal aspect, take away the communal gathering around Christ’s body and blood, and the Christian will begin to suffer a malnutrition of faith.
06/25/21
As the sin-bearer, Jesus was also the sin-confessor in the psalms.
06/24/21
“Poverty of spirit” is not an ethical value we strive for. It is an act of God’s mercy spoken to the deepest recesses of our soul when it’s overwhelmed by God’s grace.
06/23/21
The reformers were compelled to confess the true faith and challenge corrupt practices—this is what the Augsburg Confession is about.
06/21/21
Our certainty is of Christ, that mighty hero who overcame the Law, sin, death, and all evils.
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