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Ryan Couch

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Ryan Couch is married to his college sweetheart, Andrea. They live with their two teenagers in beautiful Bend, OR. Ryan holds Master’s degrees from Knox Theological Seminary and Trinity Seminary. He is also studying with Dr. Jim Nestigen and St. Paul Lutheran Seminary in pursuit of a Doctor of Ministry degree. Ryan enjoys good cigars and talking with people about the radical message of the gospel. Ryan is currently gathering with a core group of sinners to plant a law/gospel church in Bend.

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Jesus is Bigger than Your Vote

By Ryan Couch 11/02/20

You are free from allowing anyone to cast doubt on your salvation based upon your political preferences. And free from causing anyone else to question their faith due to what Christian convictions they may have to compromise to vote in one direction or the other.

How's Your Walk With Jesus?

By Ryan Couch 10/07/20

The quality of our walk with Jesus is not predicated on anything we do, for the only thing we bring to our salvation is the sin that makes it necessary.

What Doesn't Kill You Isn't the Law

By Ryan Couch 09/10/20

What doesn’t kill you might actually be a cheapened law that leaves wiggle room and space in the door for your old man to stick his foot in and get in on the work of Christ.

Freedom In Death

By Ryan Couch 06/17/20

When the old Adam hears a command, he hears a prescription. Like a coach drawing up a play so you can win the game.

Project Car Christianity

By Ryan Couch 05/20/20

Is this Christianity? Is this what the Bible describes as the gospel? Is the Christian life? A partnership with God where we fix up our old man? The simple answer is no.

God Gives Us More Than We Can Handle

By Ryan Couch 02/27/20

What the law is powerless to do, Jesus accomplishes for us. Jesus delivers what the law demands.

You Aren’t Jesus and You Don’t Need to Be

By Ryan Couch 01/28/20

The gospel is the good news that in Christ we have been given the very righteousness of Christ himself. This means that everything God commands of us is given to us in Christ as a gift.

Good News for Resolution Failures

By Ryan Couch 01/14/20

When we talk about bettering ourselves, we need to realize that a theology of the cross does not militate against this endeavor but that it places it squarely in the horizontal realm.

The Gospel of the Unabomber

By Ryan Couch 10/23/19

It is incumbent upon the faithful preacher, looking to see sinners transformed into the image of Christ, to preach a naked gospel.

I Am A Fake Christian

By Ryan Couch 03/19/19

The other day a prominent Evangelical pastor tweeted, “My life’s commitment is to talk about the Bible in such a way that fake Christians feel fake — so that they can be saved.”

The Myth of Christian Maturity

By Ryan Couch 01/17/19

In a world where science tells us that everything is deteriorating and we’re all one day closer to our physical death it’s nice to think that there might be something we are getting better at.

God With Us

By Ryan Couch 12/18/18

It’s the Christmas season, that time of year when families gather together to exchange gifts and spend time with one another.

Forgiveness Is Finished

By Ryan Couch 10/29/18

I’ve had a lot of nasty things done to me in my 43 years of life. Many of which were done by church people while we were worshipping and serving Jesus together.

Christ’s Gifts For Ingrates

By Ryan Couch 10/01/18

Have you ever received a gift for which you were less than thrilled, but you had to pretend you really liked it so as not to offend the giver?

Why Do We Go to Church?

By Ryan Couch 05/03/18

For most of my Christian experience I was taught and I taught others that church was primarily a place to go to serve, to use your gifts, to bless others.

Sanctified By Faith

By Ryan Couch 02/28/18

As sinful humans, we are adept at taking what God gives as gift and making it into a work. Nowhere is this made more evident than in the universally misunderstood doctrine of sanctification.