Nothing good happens when you get ahead of God and take matters into your own hands.
09/11/25
To confess Christ crucified and risen as the only hope in a world that has lost its mind to wickedness and rage.
09/10/25
The following entries are excerpts from Chad Bird’s upcoming book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of the Psalms (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 191-192.
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07/11/24
This week, when you go to church, take a moment to reflect that you are being summoned by a loving Father, hands full of gifts he wants to give.
07/08/24
This is an edited excerpt from Addendum A, “The Church Year,” On Any Given Sunday: The Story of Christ in the Divine Service, written by Michael Berg (1517 Publishing, 2023), pgs. 113-120.
06/24/24
If your faith is rooted in the gospel of Zion, in the good news of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection on your behalf, you are already a member of the “heavenly Jerusalem”
06/18/24
With the Spirit we will get lost in the world. We are on a new track.
06/12/24
Moltmann is gone now, but his theology will continue to provoke and provide.
05/29/24
Lutherans have a unique heritage that makes teaching predestination doubly difficult.
05/28/24
This is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Your God is Too Glorious: Finding God in the Most Unexpected Places by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2023).
05/14/24
The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
04/29/24
The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
04/25/24
A Christian story untethered from the reality of Christ and his mercy toward sinners becomes a mere fable, while a sermon disconnected from the hearts of its listeners remains a hollow oratory.
04/22/24
This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
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03/31/24
You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
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