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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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