1. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  2. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  3. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  4. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  5. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  6. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  7. This feast is the Gospel, “the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”
  8. In this article Amy Mantravadi give a short but helpful summary of the differences in Lutheran and Reformed thought regarding assurance.
  9. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  10. Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
  11. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.