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13 mins read|03/11/20When anything other than the gospel of Christ crucified for sinners becomes the center of the parables, we exchange the Gospel for the law.
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8 mins read|03/03/20Christ teaches that we are not lost, but have eternal life. That God has so loved us that he allowed the ransom to cost him his only beloved child.
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11 mins read|03/03/20When talking about God’s ultimate destination for us, we’ve grown sloppy in our language, nearsighted in our gaze, and un-Easter in our hope. We act and speak as if dying and going to heaven is what the faith is all about. It is most emphatically not.
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16 mins read|03/02/20Where our sins are forgiven, there God in Christ is to be found.
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13 mins read|03/02/20God and love are synonymous. Any talk about love that is not talk about Jesus is, at most, a half-truth.
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8 mins read|02/26/20For what end does the Law exist? The Law exposes us so that we might find the remedy in the person and work of Jesus.
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12 mins read|02/25/20This misunderstood story is not a moralistic tale about bald prophets and child-eating bears, designed to teach youths to honor their elders and preachers. Rather, it's a brief glimpse into the age-old war that began in a garden and ended at an empty tomb.
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17 mins read|02/25/20Sometimes we have to strain hard to hear words deeper than our hearts. Words not from inside, but outside. Words from God, not our own self-spun narratives.
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10 mins read|02/24/20We all share a common hope. The same hope that converted Augustine, drove Martin Luther out of the monastery and calls horrible sinners to new life every day.
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12 mins read|02/21/20Though not without his faults, Anselm of Canterbury is unquestionably one of the great theologians of the last millennium.
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14 mins read|02/20/20When Jesus preaches the gospel, he is preaching himself. Jesus’s good news is the good news about himself.
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8 mins read|02/19/20Transfiguration is like a farewell party for a dear friend drafted and going off to war. We celebrate all that has brought us there, we rejoice in our friend, and yet we know we are sending him off to great danger.
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