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10 mins read|01/14/20It may seem like a radical statement, but in Christ Jesus, there’s nothing wrong with you.
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13 mins read|01/13/20Christians are free to engage in political matters, even as Christians, but the church as an institution has a responsibility not to lobby for specific political ends, however worthy and just they might be.
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10 mins read|01/09/20Do not be afraid of seeing the depths of your depravity. Do not be offended, because the story doesn’t end there, and it’s completion is glorious.
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11 mins read|01/06/20Having the assurance that perfect righteousness has already been gifted to you is, perhaps, the leading spiritual scuffle in which every believer is entangled.
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11 mins read|01/03/20In the midst of the Word of God being spoken, she felt for the first time God had revealed Himself to her, not as the terrifying judge she feared, but as the loving and tender father He is.
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9 mins read|01/01/20God cares for us because we’re created in his image, but he also cares for us because the second person of the Trinity, the Son, became one of us.
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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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14 mins read|12/25/19As Christians, we are not cold ascetics, depriving ourselves in the here and hereafter. We are given good things from our heavenly Father in heaven, and even a foretaste of the things to come.
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8 mins read|12/23/19On the other side of Christmas, we find (1) senseless suffering and (2) unstoppable salvation. A sermon on these verses should be honest about both.
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12 mins read|12/20/19Should we really be surprised that it would happen this way, that the servant would suffer for our salvation and die for our forgiveness?
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8 mins read|12/19/19Our regrets and anxiety, self-abuse and addictions, violence and endless lists are signs that we don’t have an answer to the question: "Why am I here right now, alive, existing?"
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19 mins read|12/12/19The 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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