Psalm 12, Part 2: The Saint Fails, The Word Purifies
By Steven Paulson
01/16/26
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Psalm 12, Part 2: The Saint Fails, The Word Purifies

God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.
Psalm 12, Part 1: Set in Salvation
Steven Paulson
Steven Paulson
01/15/26

Psalm 12, Part 1: Set in Salvation

Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.
Welcome to My House
1517 Guest Contributor
1517 Guest Contributor
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Welcome to My House

Bringing your family to church to receive “the one thing needful” (Luke 10:42) in Word and Sacrament honors and pleases God.

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Chad Bird
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You’ll Never Hear the Opening Words of the Bible the Same Again

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Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
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Who Puts His Hand to the Plow?

“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” These are the words of Jesus to a man who promised to follow him after saying good-bye to his family in Luke 9:62. Tough stuff.
Steve Byrnes
Steve Byrnes
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Preaching Through A Yearly Lectionary Rocks - But What's Being Missed?

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Mark Pierson
Mark Pierson
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Burial of Jesus and Bart Ehrman

If you haven't seen this video clip yet (and even if you have), it's worth watching (again) regardless of your taste for Colbert's style of humor. In it, he trounces the typically smug fundamentalist-turned-liberal Bible scholar Bart Ehrman, who is so used to being fawned over by members of the media that Colbert's defiance leaves him at a near loss for words.
Steve Byrnes
Steve Byrnes
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Christian Suffering: Noahs' Baptism

In Sunday morning Bible study, our class is reading 1st Peter. This week was chapter 3 and I’ve always had a challenge with the imagery there. I’m talking about the way Peter brings Noah into the picture and connects it to Christian suffering.
Steve Byrnes
Steve Byrnes
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Theology as Science and Art

The concept of Theology as science is foreign to our ‘enlightened’ century where the subject has been removed to the Liberal Arts category.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
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Out of the Depths

For since it was not enough that the Lord of heaven and earth hung on your every word, his Word was made flesh and prayed among us, a priest in the order of Melchizedek, “offering up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save Him from death,” (Heb 5:7).
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