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17 mins read|10/27/26Christianity does not locate freedom in radical autonomy. It does not tell either men or women that happiness consists in escaping obligations arising from relationships we did not entirely choose.
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10 mins read|10/26/26Jesus never promised me a World Series championship. He never promised that my children would always succeed or that life would go according to plan. He promised something better.
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13 mins read|05/18/26Through baptism, absolution, and the Lord’s Supper, Christ meets you with his radical forgiveness which changes everything, even the self!
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11 mins read|04/20/26Christ’s saving work is finished, but his love is not locked away in the past.
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15 mins read|03/12/26For many years, I held piety as my god.
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24 mins read|02/20/26When we despair of ourselves, we repent of these self-justifying schemes and allow ourselves to be shaped by God, covered in Christ’s righteousness, and reborn with a new heart.
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15 mins read|11/14/25For the Christian, the iron gate of death was opened by the blood of Christ and the empty tomb.
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17 mins read|10/22/25Curiosity, while it might kill the cat, just might be one of the most needed virtues of our time.
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16 mins read|07/04/25Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
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23 mins read|07/03/25“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).
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28 mins read|06/29/25“Fruit” is the Christian character, the thing that spills out from all who have the spirit of God delivered to them in their baptism.
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8 mins read|06/28/25Little Willy Plays in Duty. In this episode, we read Steven Paulson’s Outlaw God, discussing the appeal of the Law (in the abstract), why old Adam loves pretending he has free will, the Ninevite Conundrum, Jonah’s wormy preacher, and our obsession with placing therapy alongside Christ as a means of grace.
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