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5 mins read|01/05/17It is the strangest of morgues—people arrive dead as doornails and leave alive.
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9 mins read|12/22/16In his Gospel account, Luke challenges us to play "Where is Jesus?"
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9 mins read|12/03/16Sometimes we try be the bad god, sometimes the good god, oftentimes a freaky hybrid of both. The result is the same: Jesus the savior just gets in our way.
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9 mins read|11/30/16If the devil took over a church, I suspect it would be bursting at the seams every Sunday, with smiling faces, clean noses, straight morals, conservative voting, institutional fidelity
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12 mins read|08/16/16Although I was too young to have mastered the skill of lying, I also knew that I couldn’t tell this woman the truth.
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9 mins read|07/22/16He lavishly pours out His rest in the waters of Baptism, in the spoken words of absolution from the pastor’s lips, in the preaching of the cross and resurrection, in the consumption of heavenly cuisine from the table at which He is host and meal.
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1 min|05/20/16This week, the Fellows continue to talk about the Means of Grace by discussing Confession and Absolution. Confession and Absolution serve to soothe the troubled soul and calm the burdened conscience the proclamation of Christ's Forgiveness. Sit back, relax, and grab a drink as the forgiveness of Christ comes from the lips of another.
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8 mins read|05/19/16The chief verb of the liturgy is the gift of God’s forgiveness for the sake of Jesus Christ.
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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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11 mins read|01/08/16I know now that to “forgive yourself” is not only impossible; it is foolish, dangerous, and futile. It is the vain attempt of a soul plagued by guilt to seek relief in the very last place he should be looking: in himself.
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10 mins read|11/25/15What if, while we were admitting all these serious infractions of the divine law, our pastor simply yawned?
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14 mins read|11/17/15What makes this story remarkable is that this man, along with others hanged that day, was among the most hated men in human history. He was guilty of atrocities so horrific only words forged in hell could adequately describe them.
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