A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope

Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.

Speaking a specific message of grace in the Absolution is a chance to bring the healing balm of the Gospel not just to generic ills, but to the particular pain point exposed by the Law on this day.

All In The Family. In this episode, we discuss marriage, vocation, and cute theology of the cross. How can Luther’s teaching and preaching on marriage and vocation help Christians at present waist the temptations of the world and Satan, which pervert and disrupt God’s will for marriage? What does baptism have to do with marriage? How does Luther’s formulation of marriage and family help Christians comprehend their relation to society and the state?

Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.

God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.

While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.

Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.

What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.

And We Are Live! In this episode, we go live for Holy Week and answer listeners' questions: election, repentance, the church, law and gospel, and on and on we go.

It’s scary to share my struggle and to show that I have cracks because once I’ve shown my cards, I open myself up for judgment.

"An apology is a promise to never do it again." In this episode we disucss this common phrase, and the differnece between a confession and an apology.