1. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  2. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  3. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  4. When you see the year ending, thank the Lord, because he had led you into this cycle of years.
  5. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
  6. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  7. For almost three years, I have produced a weekly video in the series “Reading the Gospels through Hebrew Eyes.” Here is an index of all the Gospel readings covered so far, with links to their YouTube videos.
  8. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  9. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  10. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  11. The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
  12. After the big, splashy, exciting day of Pentecost in Acts 2, church life faded into the ordinary life of ragtag sinners encountering the God of the cross coming to them in seemingly unawesome ways. What can we learn from this?