By Charlie Ziemann

11/11/26

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I Am

Jesus is not a god that we can manipulate and mold. Christ is the true God, the one who is.

Bradley Gray

11/12/26

The God Who Meets Us in the Cave

The most sober lesson we can learn from life’s caves is that all we have is a Person, one who never withers or distances himself from us, even though we are weak and languishing.

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Russ Lackey

11/13/26

Enjoy Your Freedom

Your freedom does not depend on how well you live it. It rests entirely in him.

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Charles E. Fry

05/02/19

Why We are All Theologians of Glory

If man can save himself, what need is there for the cross or the Gospel?

Paul Dunk

05/01/19

The Divine Drama

If I don't preach Christ, then there's really no reason anyone should roll out of bed on Sunday to hear anything I have to say.

Kyle G. Jones

04/29/19

Beyond Our Grasp

We would rather be God ourselves. But, being God is always beyond our grasp.

Chad Bird

04/25/19

We Are More Than the Skeletons in Our Closet

Infamy allows us the opportunity to hone one of our favorite skills: to shrink a 343-page life story down to a single paragraph that narrates what happened on one day, at a certain hour, and in a certain location. We can whittle an entire biography down to a single Tweet.

Ken Sundet Jones

04/19/19

It is Finished

And when He says, “It is finished,” He doesn’t just mean His life and ministry. He means you, your sin, your brokenness, and ultimately your death.

Mariah Coward

04/17/19

Easter Revival Burnout

Around Easter my mind often drifts back to all of the annual ‘Revival Services’ I attended when I was growing up. Every year they began the revival with the Easter service.

Valerie Thur

04/12/19

The Day of Choosing

This day was a day of choosing. On this day, Jewish households would select their Passover lambs (Ex. 12:3-6). The lambs had to be without blemish, the best of the best.

Mark Mattes

04/09/19

A Q&A with Mark Mattes on Law and Gospel in Action: Foundations, Ethics and Church

The Gospel restores us to our true humanity, embeds us in the body of Christ, feeds us with Christ’s own body, and offers us a community.

Bonnie Petroschuk

04/07/19

Wait…What? So, Nobody is Going to Be Saved?!

“That can’t be right”, I thought to myself as I flipped back and forth between two verses in my Bible.

Matt Johnson

04/02/19

God Shows Up When The Chips Are Down

If everyone would just live by the rules, the world would be a better place, wouldn’t it?

Philip Bartelt

04/01/19

Blessed is the Man Who by Faith is Saved

If sin is not “imputed” or “reckoned to” the sinner then who is it reckoned to? The good news is that it’s reckoned to God

Jacob Corzine

03/31/19

The Law and the Already Terrified Conscience

Where contrition is evident, the conscience has already been prodded, piqued, finally terrified. More Law only serves to confirm the lie this person is already at risk of believing: that the last work of the conscience is also God’s last word. But God’s last word is the word of absolution, not the confirmation of the conscience’s testimony, but now its contradiction.

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