This is an excerpt from this year’s 1517 Advent Devotional.
11/27/25
Thanksgiving, then, is not just about plenty. It is about redemption.
11/26/25
Why is it truly meet right and salutary that we should at all times and all places give thanks to God.
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09/21/23
Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.
09/06/23
We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
08/30/23
The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
08/25/23
This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
08/24/23
This is an excerpt from Martin Luther’s Commentary on Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (1535), edited by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2018).
08/17/23
In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
08/08/23
Prior sees much of evangelicalism’s imaginary trouble arising from the fact that it emphasizes quick and dramatic conversion experiences and a personally directed relationship with God.
07/28/23
The only place to begin a discussion of human/creaturely identity is with our relationship to the God whose breath filled dust, brought us to life, sustains us and gives us a hopeful future.
07/25/23
Chains may have restricted Paul, but nothing can restrict the gospel.
07/14/23
It was meant to be Karlstadt’s moment to shine, but all anyone remembered was Luther.
07/05/23
As Luther said, “Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf of spring.”
06/19/23
Church historians attempt to determine why Melanchthon made those controversial decisions.
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