This is an excerpt from the sixth chapter of Fear Not: How the Gospel Disrupts Our Deepest Anxieties by Luke Kjolhaug (1517 Publishing, 2026).
We draw near because Christ our Mediator has gone where we never could, and he has brought us with him.
The Israelite God was different from all the other gods, thus, the worship of Yahweh differed from that of all other gods.

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Jesus is the "because" and "therefore" of our salvation because He died for our sin
The sight of indulgences being bought and sold is just not something I witness on a regular basis.
We focus on what we have, what we don't have, and how and when God is going to give us what we need. This the opposite of faith.
However, right before I affirmed her proposal, it dawned on me, “Isn’t every worship service and Bible study for those struggling with faith, life, and fear?!”
One thing that makes John different than the other three Gospels is the absence of the Lord’s Supper.
Standing before Jesus is one of the cultural groups that the Lord sought fit to eradicate for their wickedness to preserve the line that would eventually birth Jesus.
An orphan girl lives a monotonous life filled with loneliness serving as a slave to her stepmother and stepsisters.
Our Lord has told us not to make these fine distinctions in grades of sin.
Christ is the answer to both the Who and the how of our extra nos salvation.
The love of God in Jesus is our confidence when the world seems to teeter on the brink of self-destruction.
Every age gives cause for both hopefulness and despair.
The accusations of the voices we hear on a daily basis are deafening. There is no shortage of voices that will remind us of our failures.