Church Attendance Increases in New Study—But Can We Trust It?
By Bruce Hillman
05/09/25
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Church Attendance Increases in New Study—But Can We Trust It?

We needn’t fear statistics and studies as palm readings into a certain future. God is God, and his Spirit is alive through his Word.
Because He Lives, He Goes With Us
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
05/08/25

Because He Lives, He Goes With Us

Christ does not hide his wounds. He offers them.
A Kingdom Without Smoke: What the Conclave Can't Decide
Seth Moorman
Seth Moorman
05/07/25

A Kingdom Without Smoke: What the Conclave Can't Decide

The church does not await a verdict; she proclaims one.

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Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
09/08/22

Peanut Skins and Porterhouses

My words are peanuts compared to the porterhouse of God’s Word.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
09/06/22

The Church Is Already Woke

Only by faith in Christ are we truly awake.
David Clay
David Clay
09/05/22

Forgiveness without God

Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
08/30/22

An Epilogue of Eternal Consequence

A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
08/29/22

Our Dissident Identity

Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
08/25/22

Sermon on Luke 11:24–26

Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
Gerhard Forde
Gerhard Forde
08/18/22

On Losing One's Life

If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
08/17/22

Lucas Cranach: Artist, Proclaimer, and Friend

Cranach became the evangelical interpreter for the masses
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
08/15/22

The Crushed Serpent: the Believer’s Only Hope

There is only one antidote to the venom of sin and death: the Savior who becomes the serpent so that every snake-bitten-sinner might live.
Kyle G. Jones
Kyle G. Jones
08/10/22

A Scriptural Reflection of Luther’s Small Catechism

Take heart: God is near and he is here for you.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
08/04/22

Christ’s Comfort in Our Crisis

Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
David Clay
David Clay
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Calling, Politics, and the City of God

Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
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