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4 mins read|01/12/21Jesus knows you and everybody else come from a long line of life wasters going all the way back to Adam. Jesus died for life wasters! Let go of your bootstraps. Stand back up. Your Father loves you.
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14 mins read|01/10/21God makes all things new. He refashions us from those turned in upon ourselves, turned to idols of our own choice and making, to experience the freedom He gives by pronouncing us His righteous children.
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9 mins read|01/01/21Perhaps this past year has prompted the recognition that God is not the tame projection of our highest hopes and dreams. Instead, he is the one who uses even his foes to make a point.
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6 mins read|12/31/20Christ has accomplished for us that which we could not do for ourselves – he has made us into his image by cleansing us of our sins and making us alive for eternity.
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9 mins read|12/29/20As we prepare to begin this new year, it is helpful to remember three painfully honest truths, one of which is "You are not enough."
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13 mins read|12/27/20As we close out an old year, Saint Silvester can remind us God is the Lord of history and He has used and is using even people whose lives sink largely or totally into obscurity to keep the confession of our faith in Jesus Christ alive.
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10 mins read|01/14/20When we talk about bettering ourselves, we need to realize that a theology of the cross does not militate against this endeavor but that it places it squarely in the horizontal realm.
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10 mins read|01/02/20God has closed the religious gym. We don't have to show up for church determined, this year, finally, to make a change for the better.
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10 mins read|01/01/20Looking back on the year, the narrative we’re fed is that we should be able to show how much we’ve grown, how much we’ve done, all the successes we’ve had, how improved we are.
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11 mins read|12/31/19Rather than making resolutions about how we’re going to accomplish great things in 2020, let's do something different: resolve how to do well at failure.
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9 mins read|12/31/19Christians are given a new name at baptism. We are given the Triune name of Father, Son, and Spirit.
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14 mins read|12/30/19The real power of his hymn comes from the fact that Bonhoeffer does not offer a rosy picture of life or any of the tropes so typical of cheap piety that tell us that everything is always right, that things happen for a reason, and that we should try to stay positive.
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