Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.

The German Bible made Sola Scriptura a reality for all believers.

Bonhoeffer was in the unenviable position of trying to break a spell. The spell was the Nazi crisis, where the totalitarian state threatened the church, and yet to many, seemed to be saving the culture and nation from mortal dangers.

Whoever your president is, you have a King. A King who elected you.

Physicality is good. Some way or another, choose a full performance of Messiah and give it your full attention. More than one time. Consider it a devotional practice.

We have seen a vision better than an angel. We have seen God on the cross. A God who is willing to suffer for us.

We discover in the book that all of history is unfolding according to a plan, but the plan is hidden from our typical ways of seeing.

He is holding you in the faith, even if you imagine your faith has failed you.

“We all partake of the one cup, the cup of blessing which we bless. This is not seen as a bunch of different cups, but as one cup, the same cup that Jesus blessed at the Last Supper.”

We practice infant baptism because that is the ancient practice, following the command of Scripture.

As I came to read the Reformers, I found their words comforting. I started to hope again.

Our Lord has told us not to make these fine distinctions in grades of sin.