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Unimagined Freedom and Forgiveness in Hamilton

By Ken Sundet Jones 07/16/20

In the quiet of your own uptown, where your own sins bear down on you and create a troubled conscience before the world, before others, and before God, your Lord reaches across the chasm of brokenness to take your hand.

Wellspring of the Joy of Living

By Ken Sundet Jones 06/26/20

The following is an excerpt from Ken Sundet Jones’ chapter in “Who Am I?” written by Scott Ashmon (1517 Publishing, 2020).

You Can't Handle God

By Ken Sundet Jones 06/22/20

The kingdom I seek is the lower-case realm ruled over by the almighty upper-case Me.

What Makes a Theologian of the Cross?

By Ken Sundet Jones 06/08/20

Christ isn’t preached in his glory but in his ignominy, his utter shame, degradation, and desolation.

Bible Stories Too Dangerous for Sunday Morning

By Ken Sundet Jones 05/18/20

Dangerous Bible stories show us a God who has no problem whatsoever using the muck and mire of our worst days to make his progress toward his good goal happen.

Elisabeth Cruciger: Hymn Writer of the Reformation

By Ken Sundet Jones 04/24/20

Elisabeth Cruciger is the first female Lutheran hymn writer. In fact, her hymn was included in the very first evangelical hymnal, published in 1524. With her life and her hymn, she becomes a witness, an example, and a proclaimer of the gospel to us almost 500 years later.

Temptation’s Green Pastures: The Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer

By Ken Sundet Jones 03/26/20

The gospel promise is that God in Christ knows exactly what your temptations are and still bids you find protection from them in him.

In Memory of Katharina von Bora, Part 2

By Ken Sundet Jones 12/19/19

In some measure, if Luther had any success during his last two decades, it happened because of the woman who’d insisted on him as her bridegroom.

In Memory of Katharina von Bora, Part 1

By Ken Sundet Jones 12/13/19

Her importance goes beyond simply managing the reformer’s household.

The Mix that Makes Salvation Work (aka the Hypostatic Union of Christ)

By Ken Sundet Jones 11/11/19

Understanding the doctrine of the hypostatic union can help us understand what God is up to in the Incarnation.

Reformation Day: Hey Beggar, You're Free!

By Ken Sundet Jones 10/31/19

When we hear freedom, we have to ask about its opposite, bondage.

Luther's Counsel for the Sick and Dying

By Ken Sundet Jones 05/17/19

As usual, Luther took what he received and turned it inside-out, so that it shifted from a series of demands and became a bestowal of God’s gracious promise.

It is Finished

By Ken Sundet Jones 04/19/19

And when He says, “It is finished,” He doesn’t just mean His life and ministry. He means you, your sin, your brokenness, and ultimately your death.

The Feast of Easter

By Ken Sundet Jones 03/25/19

All the piety, rigor, and discipline presented to the world by the believers, the General knew, was done out of fear and the denial of God’s grace

Luther on the Verge: Burning the Papal Bull

By Ken Sundet Jones 12/10/18

The Pope Leo X used the psalm description of a boar uprooting grape vines in a vineyard as a metaphor for what the upstart German monk had been doing at that backwater university.

A Simple Thanksgiving

By Ken Sundet Jones 11/22/18

God’s gifts are received, and the faithful heart offers gratias, and thanks are given in return.

The Treacherous Territory of Preaching Thanksgiving

By Ken Sundet Jones 11/11/18

We are awfully close to the tipping point where Thanksgiving falls completely into the clutches of the advertising world. Where the holiday is treated as just another excuse to get you to buy more stuff and accumulate more goods.

Election Hacking

By Ken Sundet Jones 11/02/18

Divine election hacking happens with the proposal that God’s Word is irrelevant and powerless, weak and impotent.

Learning the Cycle of Gospel Proclamation

By Ken Sundet Jones 09/04/18

True preaching arises when the Holy Spirit steeps the proclaimer in its own cycle of judgment and mercy.

Smashing Babies and Scarred Hands

By Ken Sundet Jones 08/22/18

Whatever loss you’ve undergone, whatever grief resides in the hollow of your heart, however much it seems like God has abandoned you, God sees that void as the place he wants to fill with new life and mercy.

A Look at True Proclamation of the Gospel

By Ken Sundet Jones 08/15/18

The Confessions instead look forward and provide a critique of the world and of all my various religions and idolatries.

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