TOPIC INDEXPractical Theology (15)

  1. What is the Purpose of a Worship Service?

    book
    06/27/22
    6 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    The worship service is less like servants entering the throne room to wait on the king’s needs and more like a father joining his family around the dining room table.

  2. The Holy Spirit: The Gift and Gift-Giver

    book
    05/24/21
    14 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    The Holy Spirit is sent, not to talk about himself, but to point us to Jesus.

  3. Christ's Words of Comfort: Matthew 5:4

    book
    04/08/21
    10 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    We will always need comfort until the reign of God, his kingdom, comes in full with Christ’s return, and our suffering and the sin that causes it is no more.

  4. Waiting with Simeon

    book
    12/24/20
    9 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    We’ve hung on every whisper of hope that this way of life would end and a new one would rise to take its place.

  5. The Comfort of Luther's Daily Prayers in 2020

    book
    11/25/20
    11 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    In a year in which every day seems to blur together, Luther's orders of daily prayer help order our daily lives.

  6. Theses on How Christians in America Can Relate to Government

    book
    11/02/20
    15 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    We subject ourselves to the governing authorities for the sake of our neighbor, that they might be protected from our sinful nature that seeks our advantage over theirs (and vice versa)

  7. Comfort When You Don't Feel Like Praising God

    book
    07/27/20
    9 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    These words not only rescue and defend; they also attack.

  8. Let’s Go to Dark Gethsemane

    book
    04/09/20
    16 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    So let’s go to dark Gethsemane. For there we see that even in his greatest moment of weakness, Jesus is our only source of strength. He drinks the cup of wrath so we can drink the cup of grace.

  9. Cutting Hair and Saying Prayers: Luther on When, How, and What to Prayer

    book
    03/23/20
    13 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    When Luther's barber, Peter Beskendorf, asked him how to pray, Luther wrote him an open letter that has become a classic expression of the "when, how, and what" of prayer. It is as instructive today as when it was first penned it in 1535.

  10. Limping In The Faith: How the Narrative Order of Scripture Teaches the Gospel

    book
    01/16/20
    13 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    What then does this sequence of stories teach us? It teaches us a pertinent lesson about the Christian life.

  11. The Promises of Advent: Suffered and Died

    book
    12/20/19
    12 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    Should we really be surprised that it would happen this way, that the servant would suffer for our salvation and die for our forgiveness?

  12. Give Us This Day Our Daily Thanksgiving

    book
    11/27/19
    9 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    To pray that God’s name is hallowed among us is to pray for the continual proclamation of the gospel in truth and purity that we would hear the word about Christ crucified for sinners.
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