TOPIC INDEXSeries (11)

  1. Preparing the Way for Christmas: An Excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional

    book
    10/04/22
    5 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones Kathy Morales
    This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!

  2. Christmas in Isaiah: Be Fruitful and Multiply

    book
    12/21/21
    12 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    Isaiah speaks to our time. He speaks to our rejoicing now and an anticipated joy-filled future. Christ’s coming, Christmas, brings them both.

  3. 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.

  4. Freedom For, Not From Our Neighbors

    book
    10/16/20
    9 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    Our freedom as Christians is not a form of independence. Our freedom in Christ comes from our dependence on him.

  5. Pilate's Baptism

    book
    04/08/20
    5 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    The following is an excerpt from “The Sinner/Saint Lenten Devotional” written by Kyle G. Jones and Kathy (Strauch) Morales (1517 Publishing, 2019).

  6. The Root of It All: The Fifth Petition of the Lord's Prayer

    book
    03/19/20
    13 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    This petition is proof that the Christian life is not a practice in perfectionism. Rather, it is a life of dying and rising, lived under the cross of Christ, in the continual forgiveness of our sins.

  7. The Introduction: Our Father Who Art in Heaven

    book
    02/13/20
    11 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    This article begins an eight-part series inspired by the Lenten themes of catechesis, prayer, and repentance found in the Lord’s Prayer as Luther taught it in his Small Catechism.

  8. 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?

  9. A Look at 1 Peter 2: That We May Be His Own

    book
    09/05/19
    13 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    He calls us to suffer as Christ suffered. That is, we are to suffer in service to our neighbor even if they caused the injustice.

  10. Our Great Worship Leader

    book
    04/05/19
    6 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    Worship not only starts with God; it also returns to Him through the filter of the cross. Jesus did not enter a cosmic retirement after his ascension.

  11. Marked

    book
    03/06/19
    5 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    Our sin marked Christ. Jesus was marked with the scars of nails and a spear for us. His hands, feet, and side are marked with scars displaying the cost of our redemption.