Practice Needs Promises: Martin Luther, John Mark Comer, and Christian Spirituality
By Russ Lackey
04/27/26
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Practice Needs Promises: Martin Luther, John Mark Comer, and Christian Spirituality

May we, as preachers, rise and proclaim that Jesus Christ is sufficient for all our spiritual hunger.
The Look and Feel of Vocation from the Outside
Scott Keith
Scott Keith
04/24/26

The Look and Feel of Vocation from the Outside

This is an excerpt from the first chapter of Being Family by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 1-6.
Prophecy, Promises, and the Freedom of
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
04/23/26

Prophecy, Promises, and the Freedom of "I Don’t Know"

God has told us everything necessary for faith. However he has not told us everything there is to know.

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Seth Moorman
Seth Moorman
09/11/22

A Prayer on 9/11

Lord, today we remember...
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
09/11/22

Epistle: I Timothy 2:1-15 (Pentecost 15: Series C)

St. Paul extends to us the call to arms. In particular, there is one weapon which is effective against so elusive an enemy. The weapon is prayer.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
09/09/22

Long Has She Reigned Over Us: The Death of Queen Elizabeth II and the Dignity of Duty

“There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
09/06/22

The Church Is Already Woke

Only by faith in Christ are we truly awake.
David Clay
David Clay
09/05/22

Forgiveness without God

Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
08/30/22

An Epilogue of Eternal Consequence

A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
08/29/22

Our Dissident Identity

Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
08/15/22

The Crushed Serpent: the Believer’s Only Hope

There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
08/04/22

Christ’s Comfort in Our Crisis

Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
Steven Paulson
Steven Paulson
08/01/22

Faith, Hope, and Love

Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
David Clay
David Clay
07/22/22

Calling, Politics, and the City of God

Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston
07/21/22

A Hospitable God

Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
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