1. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the first installment of that series.
  2. The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
  3. After the big, splashy, exciting day of Pentecost in Acts 2, church life faded into the ordinary life of ragtag sinners encountering the God of the cross coming to them in seemingly unawesome ways. What can we learn from this?
  4. That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.
  5. The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
  6. Just as the disciples on the road to Emmaus recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread, so we, through the working of the Holy Spirit, recognize our Lord in the Word and Sacraments.
  7. I trust that because of the gospel, God will continue to mend what I, in my sin, continue to break.
  8. I wanted the devotions of this book to be a source of strength for everyone who has waited all night to see the sun come up again.
  9. If you sit where Joseph sits, then you also face the choice that Joseph faced. Do you respond with vengeance?
  10. Every part of Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene in John 20 was incredibly intentional and personal for God to systematically redeem what was lost.
  11. On May 2nd, Cantate Sunday, in the year 1507, Luther celebrated his first Mass.
  12. This is an excerpt from “A Shepherd’s Letter” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2022).