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The crucified and risen Christ comes to renew, restore, and build up.
This is an excerpt from Romans 14 in Romans: A Devotional Commentary by Bo Giertz, translated by Bror Erickson. (1517 Publishing 2018), pgs 79-80.
Are we still haunted by God? Do our sins bother us to the point that we worry about God’s righteous wrath? Does the concept of justification, how one can be right in the eyes of God, even cross our minds?
The rainbow is a sign of the covenant God is making with “all flesh which is on the earth” and to the coming generations.
Suddenly, this word was. It was no longer a breath, or an idea, or a wish.
"Faith Alone, The Heart of Everything" written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson, is now available for purchase from 1517 Publishing
This post contains notes on orders of service, texts, and hymns for your midweek Lent services.
Solomon asks for what is necessary to carry out this task, an understanding/wise and discerning mind.
Jesus and the New Testament—good. Yahweh and the Old Testament—not really so good. So goes the popular, but largely whispered, dichotomy.
Like any language, the liturgy has syntax—a structure that provides order and intelligibly communicates meaning through all that is said.
There are so many reasons why the Good News is such good news; but, for me, one near the top of the list is the relief of being able to tell the truth. It is so refreshing to be given permission to ‘call a spade a spade.
Asking whether one's beliefs are the right ones is terrifying.