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14 mins read|03/15/20Can we fully experience the joy of the Festival of the Resurrection if we do not seriously stare boldly into the sad state of our own faithlessness to Him who promises to be faithful even when we are not?
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12 mins read|02/28/20The original sin of Genesis 3 was not gutter-style-sin, but glory-style-sin. It was more of an upward grasp than a downward fall. - Nathan Hoff
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12 mins read|02/26/20Ash Wednesday confronts us with our true nature, our mortality, and marks us with the only escape from it: the cross of Christ.
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79 mins read|02/17/20John Pless offers thoughts on preaching for your midweek Lent sermons.
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9 mins read|03/06/19All this disciplined living is to be done in freedom.
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12 mins read|02/15/18This reflection was adapted from Sexy: The Quest for Erotic Virtue in Perplexing Times (1517 Publishing, 2017).
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11 mins read|02/14/18Gone, abolished, put away with, undone, and destroyed are any and all notions that my repentance unlocks, sets free, or earns God’s forgiveness.
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11 mins read|02/09/18Every day for the baptized is a good day to die."
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2 mins read|02/09/16Warning, Remember, O man, that thou art dust… And lust, he mocks in mute self-condemnation.
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7 mins read|02/08/16What is really good for the soul is not so much confession as absolution. If confession is us telling the truth about ourselves to God, then absolution is God telling us a truer truth about ourselves.
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7 mins read|03/05/14Of all the words this woman ever spoke, these alone are chiseled forever into the stone of holy writ, and into the church’s memory. Mrs. Job becomes the patron saint of quick-tongued women.
