1. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the fifth installment of that series.
  2. God has a plan for this world that he put into place from eternity, a plan that is carried out in Jesus Christ and promises unimaginably great blessings for believers.
  3. For Japan’s highly secularized elite, alienated by collapsing opportunity and the materialistic void left behind, Bach’s music was a balm.
  4. Celebrate the 4th Year of the 1517 Podcast Network with a Special Gift.
  5. 1517 would not exist without the leadership, friendship, and faithfulness of Pastor Ron Hodel.
  6. There is someone outside of I, someone outside of you, that our faith and hope is in.
  7. Make no mistake, sinners are in fact being pursued by a most hideous beast called sin, death, and the devil, unleashed and striking continuously.
  8. What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
  9. To give us God’s name, the name that is above every name, Christ gave us the exact words to say at baptism: the name of the triune God who is three persons, one God: “I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
  10. The Messiah is exiled from God on the cross as Israel was. Forsaken as Israel was forsaken. Cast away from Yahweh as Israel was. Why?
  11. The Savior wasn’t always forthright with his intentions behind using and relaying certain parabolic narratives.
  12. Great things are contained in these seemingly unimportant words: "Behold, your king." Such boundless gifts are brought by this poor and despised king.