Forgiveness from Jesus is always surprising to us.
05/19/25
The Christ who rescues does not wait for you to be clean. He comes to clean you. He does not need your strength. He brings his own.
05/16/25
When you remember your baptism, you're not recalling a ritual. You're standing under a current of divine action that has not ceased to flow since the moment those baptismal waters hit your skin.
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09/21/17
While Lynch might not be everyone’s cup of tea, he certainly paints a world that many of our neighbors can relate to: a strange place governed by inexplicable entities, causes and forces.
09/11/17
During my recent trip to visit my daughter and her family, my son-in-law got me hooked on Leah Remini’s A&E show, Scientology and the Aftermath.
09/09/17
The only churches that live are churches that have died. That still die. And that rise to newness of life in Christ’s life alone.
09/08/17
This emphasis in Luther also applied to his understanding of the sacraments, and particularly comes out in his writings on the Lord’s Supper in his Large Catechism.
09/06/17
If this opening verse offers to us both door and doorkeeper, then the doorkeeper stands with the door held securely shut.
09/05/17
Summer is almost over! School has started, vacation is done and it’s time to get back to the grind. Do you feel well rested? I suppose that depends on what I mean by rest right?
08/31/17
God's doing for us that gets done is Word and Sacrament stuff. Everything else flows from His speaking to us, baptizing us, bodying and bloodying us. Jesus sees our need.
08/24/17
Standing before Jesus is one of the cultural groups that the Lord sought fit to eradicate for their wickedness to preserve the line that would eventually birth Jesus.
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08/17/17
An orphan girl lives a monotonous life filled with loneliness serving as a slave to her stepmother and stepsisters.
08/15/17
We sinners share a common problem when it comes to Jesus’ parables. We read them with an eye to our own righteousness.
08/15/17
The Christian Church is one of the last refuges in modern American society where people who have perpetrated or suffered trauma and violence can gather together to receive the truth about themselves.
08/12/17
The love of God in Jesus is our confidence when the world seems to teeter on the brink of self-destruction.
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