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11 mins read|06/20/19[This text] describes a journey to a foreign region where Jesus engages in a confrontational conversation with a legion of demons, performs a violent and scandalous exorcism, and leaves behind a community gripped by terror. Apparently, the only thing more frightening than a naked, graveyard-dwelling demoniac is this visitor from Nazareth who reigns over everything.
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18 mins read|06/20/19Baptism demolishes all boasting, for it is passively received and all that is received is pure gift. No one can, therefore, boast a better salvation than another.
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14 mins read|06/10/19The Holy Spirit gathers us together and keeps the church in the true faith, and He does it all by way of the Gospel.
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13 mins read|06/10/19While the Holy Spirit does work within us, He always comes to us from the outside, through the external Word and Sacraments.
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22 mins read|06/06/19The following is an excerpt from “A Year of Grace: Collected Sermons of Advent through Pentecost” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2019).
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15 mins read|05/14/18The miracle of Pentecost is not obvious; it is the miracle of faith created through the preaching of the word of the cross.
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11 mins read|06/06/17Christians argue about who's in charge of who, who's going to run things, who is the authority and who are the leaders that tell us on behalf of Jesus what to do next.
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9 mins read|06/01/17This coming Sunday churches around the world will celebrate the big, splashy day of Pentecost. As well they should.
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8 mins read|05/30/17On episode TEN of Let the Bird Fly! we welcome Rev. Tyler Peil back (via Skype) for the second part of our two-part series.
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6 mins read|05/23/17On episode NINE of Let the Bird Fly! we welcome Rev. Tyler Peil via Skype for a two-part series to discuss the Ascension of our Lord and Pentecost.
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2 mins read|05/14/16Today the Spirit whom unfaithful David prayed the Lord would not take from him Pours himself into sinners that they might sing of the faithful love of their Husband.
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47 mins read|05/14/13Though the theophanic elements at the Jerusalem Pentecost were not as diverse as those at Sinai, there is one prominent commonality between the two: divine speech out of divine fire.
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