Bold Preaching, Imperfect Vessels: Remembering John MacArthur

By Erick Sorensen

07/23/25

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Bold Preaching, Imperfect Vessels: Remembering John MacArthur

MacArthur’s courage to speak Scripture’s truth, no matter the audience, should be commended.

An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: Ordinary Water

Kathy Morales

07/22/25

An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: Ordinary Water

This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 74-77.

Amy Mantravadi

07/21/25

A Review of "The Church: A Guide to the People of God" by Brad East

“The Church exists to tell anyone and everyone who knocks on her door wondering what’s inside: Come and see” (pg. 58). Such reminders make The Church a worthwhile read.

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Donavon Riley

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When Sin Cuts Us Down

The easiest way for us to contend with our sin is to become an agent of sin. We slice and cut others to pieces for all the world to see.

Valerie Thur

01/31/20

How to Suffer Well

Your faith is not dependent on whether or not you suffer well. Your faith is dependent on the fact that Christ did.

Bror Erickson

01/30/20

John the Baptist on the Necessity of Baptism

We can rejoice in our own need and the gift we receive through baptism given by the same one by whom John desired to be baptized.

Pete Lange

01/29/20

The Gospel is a Noun

It’s a delivery of historical facts that tells us who Jesus is and what he has done for us through his dying on the cross and his rising from the grave.

Gretchen Ronnevik

01/29/20

Your Bible Reading Plan Won't Save You

If I’m honest, I want that completed Bible reading plan more than I want grace.

Ryan Couch

01/28/20

You Aren’t Jesus and You Don’t Need to Be

The gospel is the good news that in Christ we have been given the very righteousness of Christ himself. This means that everything God commands of us is given to us in Christ as a gift.

Philip Bartelt

01/27/20

Pelagius and Pelagianism

Pelagius maintained an orthodox appearance while rejecting original sin and the distinction between law and gospel.

Donavon Riley

01/27/20

A Good Place to Get Stuck

We don't have to worry about making progress towards God because he's already come to us, named us as his own, and promises to never leave or forsake us.

Robert Kolb

01/27/20

I’m Mortified and, If Not, I Must Get to It

God has placed preachers of His Word in the frontlines of His combat against Satan and all his minions that is fought out on the battlefields of the individual lives of believers.

Bob Hiller

01/24/20

Good Gifts

The following is an excerpt from "Finding Christ in the Straw" written by Robert M. Hiller (1517 Publishing, 2020).

Erick Sorensen

01/23/20

Jesus and Troubled Waters

Even when God doesn’t take away the troubled waters of our life, he is the Bridge we can lean on no matter what storms may come our way.

Bror Erickson

01/23/20

Third Sunday After Epiphany: John 4:27-42

The following is an excerpt from “A Year of Grace: Collected Sermons of Advent through Pentecost” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2019).

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