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Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley

  1. Ordinary Joy

    book
    10/11/18
    10 mins
    Donavon Riley
    She said, “Keep coming back, and you’ll know joy.” He wanted to vomit a rainbow of resentment, bitterness, and loathing all over her faux-leather boots.

  2. Freed From the Law to be For the Law

    book
    10/10/18
    11 mins
    Donavon Riley
    Gospel questions don’t get a Law answer. Religious questions beg for Law answers.

  3. What's Love Got to Do with It?

    book
    10/04/18
    10 mins
    Donavon Riley
    Love is the sum of the law. Love God with all your heart, spirit, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. That means that if love can't be done when it needs to be done then get rid of the law, because it's not lawful.

  4. Two Kings, Two Kingdoms

    book
    10/02/18
    10 mins
    Donavon Riley
    We are caught up in a battle between two kings and two kingdoms. And, whether we like it or not, we are ruled by one king or the other.

  5. Your Jesus has Saved You

    book
    09/27/18
    12 mins
    Donavon Riley
    He begins with Jesus and ends with Jesus. He is not going to try to complete what Jesus starts.

  6. I’d Never Go to That Church

    book
    09/25/18
    7 mins
    Donavon Riley
    Would you go to the church on the corner knowing that the pastor is an ex-con?

  7. Jesus Opens Us

    book
    09/18/18
    9 mins
    Donavon Riley
    Jesus opened our ears and mouth when He baptizes us. Jesus put His fingers into our ears, speaks to us, and washes our sins away.

  8. Seeing Samson's Cross-Eyed Reflection

    book
    09/14/18
    8 mins
    Donavon Riley
    For the past twenty years that I've been a Christian, I've not found any evidence in my reading of Judges 13-16 that qualifies Samson for the "book of faith" (Hebrews 11).

  9. Theses 13-15: Freedom from Our Free Will

    book
    09/10/18
    24 mins
    Donavon Riley
    This is the seventh installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 13, 14 and 15 by Caleb Keith.

  10. When God Gets Ahold of Us

    book
    09/05/18
    10 mins
    Donavon Riley
    We all do it. It comes naturally to every human being. Since the Fall, every man and woman, every child, everyone imagines he can use experience and knowledge to figure out God.

  11. We Get to Go Home Justified

    book
    09/03/18
    11 mins
    Donavon Riley
    Jesus says that none of our goodness is good enough to pass muster. Likewise, none of our badness is bad enough to propel us outside Jesus’ death for sin.

  12. Failed Saint, Faithful Savior

    book
    08/28/18
    10 mins
    Donavon Riley
    Christians have long enjoyed an absurd love affair with white-washing biblical saints.
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