1. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of these early Lutheran hymns – and their physical availability in hymnals – in the piety of common people living in Lutheran towns and territories.
  2. The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
  3. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  4. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  5. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  6. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  7. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  8. Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
  9. Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
  10. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  11. Sin is a heavy thing to bear. Its jacket is shame, its medals are guilt.