TOPIC INDEXLent (5)

  1. Don't Forget Satan on Easter

    book
    03/09/24
    16 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    That Jesus is risen from the dead means, now and forever, Satan is bound, and it is determined he has no right to try to have a say in our lives.

  2. God Pours Ashes on My Head

    book
    02/22/23
    16 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    A life of repentance embraces the ashes placed on our own foreheads and the coals we feel heaped upon our heads, for these ashes and coals bid us to join in the refreshment and restoration that comes on the road of repentance.

  3. Holy Week Special: Christ’s Cross—the Orientation of our Life of Repentance

    book
    03/28/21
    14 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Each day gives us occasion to die to our sinful identities of all kinds and to live out a life in Christ’s footsteps as children of God.

  4. The Ambivalence of Feelings in Lent and Passion Week

    book
    03/15/20
    14 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Can we fully experience the joy of the Festival of the Resurrection if we do not seriously stare boldly into the sad state of our own faithlessness to Him who promises to be faithful even when we are not?

  5. Meditating on the Passion (A Forgotten Art: For Preachers and the Entire Congregation)

    book
    03/24/19
    16 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Lenten meditation is the one time Luther might advise us to be turning in on ourselves--and taking a cold, honest glance. For only in the shadow of the Cross can we look honsetly into the cause of the death of the man from Nazareth, the second person of the Trinity.