TOPIC INDEXJustification (14)

  1. A Toast to the End of Ourselves

    book
    01/02/23
    12 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    Maybe, just maybe, our goal for 2023 should not be to live more but to die more.

  2. 1 John 5:1-4: Faith, Love, & the Family of God

    book
    10/21/22
    11 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.

  3. 1 John 2:1-11: Lovers and Liars

    book
    08/19/22
    17 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.

  4. In Praise of Gifts

    book
    07/05/22
    12 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.

  5. Victims & Villains

    book
    02/03/22
    12 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.

  6. Who Stole the Magic?

    book
    11/08/21
    11 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    Without the sacraments, God’s grace is simply an artifact behind a glass-case in a museum. We might be able to describe and even admire it, but we never get firsthand access to it.

  7. The Gospel According to Corduroy

    book
    07/14/21
    9 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    God’s love is axiomatic; it just is. It’s a truism without a logical explanation.

  8. My Bookshelf Is Bigger Than Yours

    book
    03/29/21
    11 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    All of my theological endeavoring will not squeeze one more ounce of grace from God.

  9. Rationing Mercy

    book
    01/19/21
    9 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    As human beings, we usually think that mercy should have limits; that it should never exceed its confines. This attitude is rooted deeply in the human heart.

  10. God is Not an Abacus

    book
    01/11/21
    10 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    Salvation is not simply transactional; it is fundamentally relational. Not anemic, but full-blooded. Not disembodied, but bodied.

  11. The Power of the Swipe

    book
    10/27/20
    10 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    When your identity is tied up in the judgment of others—you're in deep trouble. Because, however well-curated and photo-shopped your life may be, sooner or later someone is going to look at you, they'll swipe, and they'll move on.

  12. God of the Springtime

    book
    04/29/20
    12 mins
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    The true miracle of springtime isn't simply its beauty, but in the way it foreshadows the sprigs of life that spring forth when God creates faith from the fallow ground of dead sinners.
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