In the end, your story isn’t an epic of personal glory. You aren’t the hero. Your Savior Jesus is.
08/21/26
Whether a Christian enjoys high church, low church, or something in between, aesthetics in the Church are not about any one individual person and their particular tastes. Aesthetics are, fundamentally, not a matter of legalism, but of edification—that the Gospel of Christ might be preached and taught to all peoples, unhindered by its medium.
08/19/26
Let us live by walking with Jesus, so that our Neo-Pagan neighbors, the witch, and frankly a lot of us Christians, can put down our crystals, our superstitions, our vision boards, and our bound sage in order to live out a liturgy of life, with rituals, practices, and behaviors that reflect who we are as followers of Christ.
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07/28/19
Indeed, baptism is life because resurrection is life. Nothing short of regeneration—renewal of life—is accomplished by God through sheer grace because of Christ Jesus.
07/28/19
Jesus names what life does not consist of, and in doing so he gets to something near and dear to our hearts as Americans—our possessions.
07/27/19
These treasures show us that, no matter how well we think we know this poem, there’s always more layers to uncover.
07/26/19
The following is a Question and Answer session with author and pastor Donavon Riley where we talk about his latest book, “Crucifying Religion: How Jesus is the End of Religion”.
07/23/19
We are saved by God's grace, apart from our work – so why does obtaining God's wisdom require such work?
07/22/19
The following is an excerpt adapted from, “Human Rights and Human Dignity,” written by John Warwick Montgomery (1517 Publishing, 2016).
07/22/19
Believers are reminded—and the preacher is to remind them—baptism marks the forgiveness of sins, the end of legal demands, justification and regeneration, and the ultimate triumph over rulers and powers.
07/12/19
The following is an excerpt from “Crucifying Religion” written by Donavon Riley (1517 Publishing, 2019).
07/10/19
What follows is a little crash course in how to read Calvin with respect, for our benefit, and with an eye to how we keep Reformation giants at a proper historical arms distance.
06/28/19
The following is an excerpt from “Crucifying Religion” written by Donavon Riley (1517 Publishing, 2019).
06/21/19
I’d like to offer a short reflection on the theme of “worldliness” as it appears in his later work and how that’s connected to an item of his Lutheran heritage: the theology of the cross.
06/14/19
They cannot know that I am already a father, but, this side of eternity, I won’t ever meet my child because of a miscarriage.
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