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.

Mark Duerr

11/09/26

What does Baal have to do with Yahweh?

Yahweh tells his people that they “shall have no other gods before me,” he’s speaking into a culture whose very fabric is made up of the worship of other gods.

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Bruce Hillman

07/11/24

What Makes the Church Fundamentally Unique?

This week, when you go to church, take a moment to reflect that you are being summoned by a loving Father, hands full of gifts he wants to give.

Michael Berg

07/08/24

The Church Year

This is an edited excerpt from Addendum A, “The Church Year,” On Any Given Sunday: The Story of Christ in the Divine Service, written by Michael Berg (1517 Publishing, 2023), pgs. 113-120.

Scott Keith

06/26/24

The Testimony of Baptism

A miracle happened right before our very eyes.

Bradley Gray

06/24/24

Unshakable Hope

If your faith is rooted in the gospel of Zion, in the good news of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection on your behalf, you are already a member of the “heavenly Jerusalem”

Donavon Riley

06/18/24

The Weird Time Is About to Happen

With the Spirit we will get lost in the world. We are on a new track.

Adam Francisco

06/03/24

The Basis and Basics of Christian Apologetics

If you are a Christian, you already have what you need to give a reason for the hope within you. That reason, though, is not you.

Chad Bird

05/28/24

The Mega of Megachurches

This is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Your God is Too Glorious: Finding God in the Most Unexpected Places by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2023).

Gage Jordan

05/14/24

In The Wild: Church for Those People

The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.

Donavon Riley

05/13/24

The Day Russell Brand Was Filled with The Holy Breath

God chose Russell Brand, chose to defy his fast-escaping life and drink up all his swift-running sin in the River Thames.

Amy Mantravadi

05/10/24

The Threefold Justification of the Resurrection

The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.

1517 Staff

04/22/24

Resurrection Community

This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.

Bradley Gray

04/18/24

God’s Gift of Justification

The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.

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