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11 mins read|08/28/20The fact that baptism specifically unites me to Christ in his death means that I share in his sufferings in my identity, not in my activity.
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14 mins read|07/27/20I rededicated my life as many times as I could when the guilt was unbearable. I would read my Bible more and pray more, yet I still struggled. I knew deep down, I was breaking God’s heart with my failure at being his child.
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2 mins read|07/21/20Kids - you'll never know the freedom of "come home with the streetlights on". But don't worry, be nostalgic for the Gospel of Jesus!
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16 mins read|07/13/20By basing our assurance on the promises of God, which we not only hope for in the future but live in now, the Christian can finally rest in the comfort that they are both saved and not responsible for their own salvation.
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11 mins read|04/30/20When a manager faces imminent termination by his wealthy master for mishandling his wealth, what will he do? Where can he turn? In this challenging parable, Jesus teaches us that our salvation lies outside of ourselves and our works.
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8 mins read|04/02/20In this final article in the series, “The Lord’s Prayer During Lent,” Philip Bartelt talks about the 7th Petition (“Deliver us from evil”) and the Conclusion (“For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.”)
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13 mins read|03/19/20This petition is proof that the Christian life is not a practice in perfectionism. Rather, it is a life of dying and rising, lived under the cross of Christ, in the continual forgiveness of our sins.
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11 mins read|02/20/20This article is the second installment in an eight-part series inspired by the Lenten themes of catechesis, prayer, and repentance found in the Lord’s Prayer as Luther taught it in his Small Catechism.
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1 min|02/12/20Demons, waterless places, and the sign of Jonah.
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23 mins read|02/10/20The Church gathers around the Word and Sacrament in order to receive Christ and each other.
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7 mins read|01/30/20We can rejoice in our own need and the gift we receive through baptism given by the same one by whom John desired to be baptized.
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9 mins read|01/28/20We live in the strength of our baptism again and again and again, returning to it every day according to God's promise.
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