1. Forty-five seconds is about how long I have as a pastor leading a Sunday morning service to sit at the feet of the cross and receive Jesus’ body and blood given to me by the hands of another at the Lord’s Table.
  2. Martha’s pain is not met by a to-do list. Jesus’ reply is not that she should try harder or change her behavior
  3. Bo Giertz attained infamy in Sweden for a humble adherence to unpopular, orthodox practice and doctrine.
  4. God and Jeremiah may have been looking at the same person, but they were seeing very different things.
  5. It turns out that when Elijah battled depression, God sent someone to just be with him. To comfort him.
  6. The grace of God does not save us at the beginning only in order to keep ourselves in his good graces by our good enough readiness.
  7. Ascertaining the what and how of the Church greatly factor into the very purpose of the Church, that is, they essentially answer the question why the Church?
  8. Questions of our purpose and significance as a church abound with fewer and fewer people in the pews.
  9. This is an edited excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  10. This article comes to us from 1517 guest contributor, Karen Stenberg.
  11. In just about every generation, there have been some who thought The End was very near. They were convinced that they were living in the last days. And they were right, though probably not in the way they thought. Likewise, if you think we are living in the last days, you too are right, but perhaps not in the way you suppose.
  12. Death may speak, and its voice may sound authoritative and decisive. Nonetheless, it is a mere whimper from the grave.