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11 mins read|12/20/20As Simeon sang, you might lead your hearers in a song of defiant and hopeful confidence to close out a year characterized by death and despair.
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12 mins read|12/13/20At the center of this gospel reading is a conversation. It was of the memorable variety. It involved a peasant girl from a small town and a mighty messenger from God.
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11 mins read|12/06/20Whatever else may come, however worse it may get, the light has come and will come again.
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6 mins read|11/30/20We at 1517 are utterly committed to keeping the main thing, the main thing.
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10 mins read|11/29/20Mark makes no effort to impress listeners or win votes. His voice aims only to prepare those who hear it for the coming of the Lord.
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11 mins read|11/22/20Jesus desires for us to watch. The question, however, is, “How do we watch for the return of Jesus?”
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9 mins read|11/15/20In this context where death looms large, Jesus reveals a kingdom where life looms even larger.
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10 mins read|11/08/20The tragedy of this parable is not the failure to serve. It is the failure to truly know your Savior.
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11 mins read|11/01/20The parable is harsh. It judges. If you do not believe, you will not be saved. But let us pause for a moment and think about why Jesus is telling the parable.
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2 mins read|10/31/20Just like we end up walking in circles when lost with no navigation instruments, so does humankind outside of Christ. Nothing has changed since the Reformation. People still suck and God still loves.
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10 mins read|10/25/20Jesus breaks through our barriers in His beatitudes. He shatters our conceptions of the blessed life and opens the Kingdom of God to all people.
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12 mins read|10/20/20The Gospel is gift, pure and simple. It is backwards. It is upside down. It is foolish. And as long as people are sinners, it is as relevant as ever.
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