It is within this charged atmosphere that Luther’s writings take on their full significance. His responses to the Turkish threat were not merely reactions to military events; they were rooted in a deep theological reflection on the nature of God’s rule over the world, the responsibilities of Christian rulers, and the role of the Church in times of crisis.
06/17/26
Your God is not artificially intelligent, but the source of all intelligence (including yours).
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06/15/26
The church is not renewed when one pastor tries to do the work of the whole body. The church is renewed when Christ’s body begins to act like a body again.
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09/05/18
We all do it. It comes naturally to every human being. Since the Fall, every man and woman, every child, everyone imagines he can use experience and knowledge to figure out God.
09/04/18
True preaching arises when the Holy Spirit steeps the proclaimer in its own cycle of judgment and mercy.
09/03/18
Jesus says that none of our goodness is good enough to pass muster. Likewise, none of our badness is bad enough to propel us outside Jesus’ death for sin.
08/29/18
Last week we talked about what happens when the Triune God shows up, and how we practice this every week in Sunday worship with the Trinitarian invocation, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
08/27/18
When I hear the word “repentance” my mind quickly goes to those old terror inducing Chick Tracts.
08/22/18
Amazing things. That’s what happens when the Triune God shows up in Jesus Christ.
08/22/18
Whatever loss you’ve undergone, whatever grief resides in the hollow of your heart, however much it seems like God has abandoned you, God sees that void as the place he wants to fill with new life and mercy.
08/20/18
A father dies and leaves an inheritance to his two children, Jane and Grace. The family member handling the estate gives them each a letter containing the cheques for their inheritance.
08/20/18
We prefer this to be switched around. We want something to happen in us before anything happens outside of us.
08/19/18
Don’t say you’re beyond hope, for there is not one beyond God. Don’t say you’ve done too much evil, for there is no wrong bigger than God’s heart of forgiveness.
08/15/18
This is a weekly article series working through the book of Revelation.
08/13/18
Too often, we equate “repent” as the final warning to stop a particular sin before God ceases to love you and sends you to hell for your evil deeds.
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