1. Salvation in the Silence of God

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    03/31/21
    10 mins
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    By Bror Erickson
    Good Friday encompasses the silence of God, even as it focuses on our salvation in the cross of Christ.
    Salvation in the Silence of God

  2. Palm Sunday: This Week is For You

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    03/27/21
    6 mins
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    By John Bortulin
    For the God-man goes from borrowed donkey to borrowed upper room to borrowed cross and borrowed tomb. For you.
    Palm Sunday: This Week is For You

  3. Repentance According to the Scriptures: Luke 15:1-7

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    03/26/21
    10 mins
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    By Kelsi Klembara
    The truth is we’ve always mixed up the roles of penitent and priest.
    Repentance According to the Scriptures: Luke 15:1-7

  4. Repentance According to the Scriptures: 1 John 1:8-9

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    03/19/21
    14 mins
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    By Gretchen Ronnevik
    Being able to tell the difference between truth and lies is at the core of repentance.
    Repentance According to the Scriptures: 1 John 1:8-9

  5. Repentance According to the Scriptures: Acts 2:37–39

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    03/12/21
    8 mins
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    By John W. Hoyum
    Repentance means being cut down by the law’s declaration of judgment. It’s not an activity we do to prepare for grace, but a point of despair worked by God himself.
    Repentance According to the Scriptures: Acts 2:37–39

  6. Why Lent Offers us a Curious Kind of Joy

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    03/09/21
    12 mins
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    By Bruce Hillman
    There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.
    Why Lent Offers us a Curious Kind of Joy

  7. Repentance According to the Scriptures: Luke 13:1-5

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    03/05/21
    11 mins
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    By Brad Soenksen
    Because of my Advocate, there is no judgment or condemnation by God in my suffering.
    Repentance According to the Scriptures: Luke 13:1-5

  8. Repentance According to the Scriptures: Mark 1:1-8

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    02/26/21
    10 mins
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    By Ken Sundet Jones
    Repentance comes on account of suffering, loss, failure, and death. It happens when the promise of forgiveness of sin given in Jesus’ death is proclaimed to us down-and-outers.
    Repentance According to the Scriptures: Mark 1:1-8

  9. Repentance According to the Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14

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    02/19/21
    14 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    We cannot scan any random passage of Scripture and automatically assume the words are unconditionally addressed to us. Often, very often, they are not.
    Repentance According to the Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14

  10. Surveying Our Soiled Condition, and the Condition of our Soil

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    02/17/21
    9 mins
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    By Steven A. Hein
    Ash Wednesday, is meant to remind us we have a death problem. All living things made from the soil shall return to it.
    Surveying Our Soiled Condition, and the Condition of our Soil

  11. The Man Born to be King

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    01/07/21
    13 mins
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    By Steven A. Hein
    Epiphany celebrates that we have not been left in our hearts’ cold darkness and this spoiled creation.
    The Man Born to be King

  12. I'll be Home for Epiphany

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    01/06/21
    15 mins
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    By Valerie Thur
    This year, I’m more excited for Epiphany than I am for Christmas.
    I'll be Home for Epiphany
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