What Makes a Saint? A Saint Is Held By Promise

By Erick Sorensen

07/14/25

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What Makes a Saint? A Saint Is Held By Promise

God doesn’t just simply give you all the things. He does so because his very own Son came down and earned all the things for you.

Jason Oakland

07/11/25

Peace Be With You

‘Peace’ means “I have forgiven all those sins against me.”

An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress

Kathy Morales

07/10/25

An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress

This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.

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Mark Jasa

02/20/17

Baptism Now Saves, But...Who and When

Who should we baptize and when? How old does the person have to be? What if we get it wrong? Will something terrible happen to us?

Daniel Deen

02/13/17

A Steak Than Which None Greater Can Be Conceived?

There is something odd about the definition of God as a being that than which nothing greater can be conceived.

Donavon Riley

02/07/17

God's Word of Law and Gospel

But when God's Word of Law and Gospel are tuned up, when they're properly distinguished, then Jesus' words rain down on us like thunderbolts.

Donavon Riley

02/01/17

A Matter of The Gospel

A Christian is justified—saved from sin, death, and hell—by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Dominick Santore

01/25/17

The Daily Struggle... The Victory Won!

Sometimes, I wish I was much older. Old enough to realize that my best, most influential, and productive days are behind me so that I could speak completely and openly about my life, my triumphs, and most of all, my struggles.

Bruce Hillman

01/24/17

Spitting on Jesus

Last year, a friend I follow tweeted, “Calling yourself a sinner is spitting on all the work that Jesus did to make you a saint.”

Cindy Koch

01/18/17

Addicted to Sin

He barely wakes to find himself nearly dead; even so, he can’t feel a thing.

Donavon Riley

01/17/17

The Great Comfort That You Are A Sinner

Salvation starts in being a sinner and knowing it because that's where God starts salvation, in making "Him to be Sin who knew no sin."

Chad Bird

01/15/17

"What a Foe We Have in Jesus"

God’s Son is infinitely more than our fragile egos have flattened him out to be.

Bror Erickson

01/12/17

Wrestling with a God Who Wrestles for Us

Far from being un-Christian like, the discipline and training that go into learning and practicing various martial arts can have direct application to the spiritual discipline needed for the Christian life of faith characterized by Israel.

Donavon Riley

12/27/16

Where There Is No Gospel...

Can one still find a church that teaches that Christianity, and the Christian life, can be summed up as: "We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?"

Cindy Koch

12/21/16

Enlightened

God spoke into the black depth. “Let there be light."

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