1. A Christian story untethered from the reality of Christ and his mercy toward sinners becomes a mere fable, while a sermon disconnected from the hearts of its listeners remains a hollow oratory.
  2. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  3. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  4. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  5. Jesus continues to do the same for me and for you as he did for his disciples. He still shows up for us. He still speaks his peace to us.
  6. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  7. Patrick's breakthrough came when he began to leverage his knowledge of the native language and customs to build a bridge between Irish lore and the Christian mythos.
  8. We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
  9. The church is called to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. Where is that message found? In every blade of grass, on every page of Scripture.
  10. There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
  11. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  12. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.