Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.

What if Jesus had said on the cross, “Earn it”?

We are obligated to do the good works of God.

The Holy Spirit unleashes his power through us, his vines, and we then get to watch as his fruits blossom and ripen.

It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.

We are preparing for summer, and sharing our summer book club picks, and then talking about the conference on Galatians that 1517 just had in Arkansas. We talk a bit about the circumcision debate, our tendency toward legalism, and how we even often prefer using softer language than the Bible.

We are preparing for summer, and sharing our summer book club picks, and then talking about the conference on Galatians that 1517 just had in Arkansas. We talk a bit about the circumcision debate, our tendency toward legalism, and how we even often prefer using softer language than the Bible.

We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.

The hardest thing you and I will ever be called to do is to believe that it is done already, that it really and truly is finished.

If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.

Renowned Luther scholar and professor emeritus of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary St. Louis, Dr. Robert Kolb, sits down with Kelsi to discuss two kinds of righteousness (or two fold righteousness).

A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.