By Mark Duerr

10/29/26

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Messengers, Angels, and Apostles

While God can, and often does, appear to people face to face, he also often employs the use of several types of messengers.

Where the Inside Is Larger Than the Outside

Bradley Gray

10/28/26

Where the Inside Is Larger Than the Outside

The “further up and further in” we go, the table keeps getting bigger, the guest list keeps getting longer, and the grace keeps on flowing.

Adam Francisco

10/27/26

The Other History of Feminism

Christianity does not locate freedom in radical autonomy. It does not tell either men or women that happiness consists in escaping obligations arising from relationships we did not entirely choose.

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John T. Pless

04/23/22

Funeral Preaching

Salutary funeral preaching seeks to set the life of the baptized believer who has died within the life of Christ incarnate, crucified, risen, and reigning.

Chad Bird

04/21/22

Please Don’t Say These Six Things at My Funeral

I want the beginning of my funeral to be focused on Jesus, as well as the middle, the end, and every point in between.

Robert Kolb

04/16/22

Resurrection Realism

The gospel of Jesus’ coming out of death and the tomb alive so that we might be restored to our identity as God’s children establishes the most enduring reality there is.

John W. Hoyum

04/04/22

The End of Ethics

False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.

Pete Lange

03/24/22

Sacred Spaces and Holy Places

Sometimes it’s important to go far away to learn of holy places back home.

Kevin Hale

03/10/22

Fearless Repentance

When we own up to our sin, our Father is not scandalized, and his response is not to reconsider his calling us.

Daniel Emery Price

03/03/22

A Look at 2 Peter 3: The Stubborn Salvation of God

This is the patient love of God. He is stubborn about the salvation of sinners. He will not be rushed even if his name is mocked, and the trustworthiness of his promises are called into question.

Bruce Hillman

02/28/22

I Don't Have the Answers, But I Have Hope

There is perhaps no better observation about the nature of anxiety and depression than its fundamental desire for avoidance.

Bruce Hillman

01/27/22

Happily Waiting for My Faith to Die

You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.

John Bombaro

01/22/22

Preaching Justification and Regeneration Together

Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.

Martin Luther

01/21/22

Grace and Peace for Stubborn Sins

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

Steve Byrnes

01/05/22

Remembering Those We've Lost During Christmas

Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.

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