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Luke Kjolhaug
Luke Kjolhaug

  1. Becoming Better People, An Excerpt from Sinner Saint: A Suprising Primer to the Christian Life

    book
    05/13/25
    9 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life (1517 Publishing, 2025). Sinner Saint is available today from 1517 Publishing.

  2. What is a Sinner Saint? An Excerpt from Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life

    book
    05/06/25
    9 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    This is an excerpt from Chapter 1 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life

  3. A Sermon is Not a Ted Talk

    book
    01/04/24
    18 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?

  4. The God Who Remembers: Noah

    book
    09/12/23
    11 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.

  5. A Toast to the End of Ourselves

    book
    01/02/23
    12 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.

  6. 1 John 5:1-4: Faith, Love, & the Family of God

    book
    10/21/22
    11 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.

  7. 1 John 2:1-11: Lovers and Liars

    book
    08/19/22
    17 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.

  8. In Praise of Gifts

    book
    07/05/22
    12 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.

  9. God's Not Impressed By Your Word Count

    book
    06/23/22
    12 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    Because of Jesus, God always hears our prayers, and he always responds to them in love–regardless of the quality or quantity of the one speaking them.

  10. Victims & Villains

    book
    02/03/22
    12 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.

  11. The Light is Coming

    book
    12/25/21
    15 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    God’s candle is not so easily extinguished. His promise is not some vague light at the end of the tunnel that we may or may not reach. In fact, God’s light has a name: Jesus Christ.

  12. Who Stole the Magic?

    book
    11/08/21
    11 mins
    Luke Kjolhaug
    Without the sacraments, God’s grace is simply an artifact behind a glass-case in a museum. We might be able to describe and even admire it, but we never get firsthand access to it.
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