1. Our God is the one who brings back the exile, who restores the outcast, he is the one who devises means to do so.
  2. Our only hope in life and death is that God loves sinners, who fail and forget constantly, with a love that is just as constant.
  3. The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
  4. A few of our staff members have shared what they are looking forward to reading in the coming months below. If you’re looking for titles to fill your own summer reading list, we hope this list is a helpful resource.
  5. The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
  6. If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
  7. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
  8. 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.
  9. I trust that because of the gospel, God will continue to mend what I, in my sin, continue to break.
  10. 1517 would not exist without the leadership, friendship, and faithfulness of Pastor Ron Hodel.
  11. We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
  12. The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.