Should you then abandon David’s plea that God use his law against his enemies and send a Legal Avenger? No, the law must be preached to the Christian (insofar as he is not one).
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05/26/25
The Church needs mystics again. Not fringe figures, but saints ablaze with love.
05/23/25
God chooses to clothe himself in promises and hides himself in his word.
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01/05/18
Instead of burning them up with unquenchable fire, He comes in solidarity, to be God with us and God for us. Jesus is baptized into our life, so that He could gift us His life.
01/04/18
While I was still an over-eager seminarian the professor warned me, “Mr. Riley, this is exciting stuff.
01/03/18
Only a god could be wise. We are seekers, lovers of divine wisdom, but it is forever beyond our grasp due to human limitation.
12/29/17
Even now we sing as we live in His gifts, and await His second Advent—His second-coming.
12/28/17
As a new year approaches, a mawkish paranoia sets in. Looking over our shoulders, we add up our good choices, our praises, and our reasons to celebrate.
12/25/17
At one point I was asked why we receive the Lord’s Supper during our Christmas services.
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12/25/17
We thus come together to eat and drink, exchange gifts, serve one another, and even while celebrating, we proclaim the Gospel of Christ to one another.
12/20/17
Babies need to be baptized for the same reason that all Christians need to be absolved: All of us are born into and contribute to this sin-wrecked show of a life.
12/12/17
We aggrandize time. It certainly possesses power over us. It irreversibly moves us in one direction and can’t be replayed to different ends.
12/12/17
Blessedness comes to us camouflaged as simple earthly words, water, bread and wine.
12/06/17
I’m going to begin at the beginning. But which one? Birth? Kindergarten? My first drink? The first time I had sex?
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