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The 1517 Blogcast is a daily, microcast of articles from 1517. These articles share insight from a community of writers communicating the proclaimed forgiveness through Christ's death and resurrection, the importance and relevance of historical Christianity and defense of the faith through Christian apologetics.

Episode Date
Eucatastrophe of Easter
Apr 24, 2024
Sheep and Shepherds
Apr 23, 2024
Resurrection Community
Apr 22, 2024
The Resurrection Message of Forgiveness
Apr 19, 2024
God’s Gift of Justification
Apr 17, 2024
Be the Church - Law or Gospel?
Mar 07, 2024
The Lenten Road
Mar 05, 2024
A Good Sermon
Mar 04, 2024
For We Do Not Know What to Pray for As We Ought
Feb 21, 2024
Lent's Forty Days
Feb 20, 2024
Legalism - The Elephant in the Room
Feb 19, 2024
Keep a Song in Your Heart
Feb 15, 2024
Love in the Ashes
Feb 14, 2024
A History of Lent: Lent's Somber Complexion
Feb 13, 2024
The Same Face
Feb 12, 2024
For You and For All People: The Legacy of Rod Rosenbladt
Feb 06, 2024
The Word of Promise and the Family of God
Jan 18, 2024
A Review of “Called into Questions” by Matthew Lee Anderson
Jan 16, 2024
A Sermon is Not a Ted Talk
Jan 04, 2024
A Pastor's Call
Nov 07, 2023
Absolved!
Nov 03, 2023
C.S. Lewis on Joy
Oct 06, 2023
To Live is Christ
Oct 05, 2023
Here's Your Sign
Oct 04, 2023
Is Thine Eye Evil, Because I am Good?
Oct 03, 2023
Unsung Inklings: Charles Williams
Oct 02, 2023
The Small Catechism was not created for confirmation class
Sep 28, 2023
God Demands The Impossible, And That’s Good
Sep 28, 2023
Why Poetry Matters
Sep 27, 2023
Unsung Inklings: Robert E. Havard
Sep 25, 2023
The God Who Remembers: Mary
Sep 15, 2023
The God Who Remembers: The Action of Remembrance
Sep 14, 2023
The God Who Remembers: Joseph
Sep 13, 2023
The God Who Remembers: Noah
Sep 12, 2023
Lost in Christ
Sep 08, 2023
The Unsung Inklings: Owen Barfield
Sep 07, 2023
Defeating the Goliath of Addiction
Sep 06, 2023
The Inner Ring
Aug 31, 2023
Becoming Human Again
Jul 28, 2023
The Word I Have Needed When My Son Has No Words
Jul 27, 2023
What Use is a Pastor?
Jul 26, 2023
The Bible: God’s Anchorage
Jul 20, 2023
The Gospel for Aliens?
Jul 19, 2023
Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 2: Wittgenstein’s Resurrection Principle
Jul 17, 2023
The Apologetics of Imagination
Jun 29, 2023
Pastoral Presence Makes All the Difference
Jun 28, 2023
Ice Baths for Lost Sheep
Jun 27, 2023
One Word
Jun 22, 2023
A Departure to Celebrate
Jun 21, 2023
Opening the Dead Hands of Faith
Jun 20, 2023
An Excerpt from What Can Really Know? by David Andersen
Jun 13, 2023
Plagiarizing Jesus Part 3: The Endless Uses of the Lord's Prayer
Jun 13, 2023
An Intro to Ordinary Time
Jun 08, 2023
God's Faithful Deliverance
Jun 02, 2023
When You Have Him
May 25, 2023
Confessions of a Tim Keller Name-Dropper
May 24, 2023
Plagiarizing Jesus: The Gift of the Lord's Prayer
May 23, 2023
C.F.W. Walther: Preacher of the Gospel
May 10, 2023
Worship is a Terrible Word
May 09, 2023
You're a Horse
Apr 27, 2023
A Strange Easter Morning
Apr 24, 2023
Faith that Bears Unbearable Grief
Apr 19, 2023
A Review of "Torahism: Are Christians Required to Keep the Law of Moses?" by R.L Solberg
Apr 18, 2023
An Excerpt from Any Given Sunday
Apr 18, 2023
It is Finished
Apr 07, 2023
Maundy Thursday: Your Big Night
Apr 07, 2023
Mandating the Promise
Apr 07, 2023
The Legend of the Dogwood
Mar 30, 2023
Forgiven Sinners in Full Bloom
Mar 29, 2023
Reading Flannery O’Connor & Reflecting on Lent, Part 2
Mar 17, 2023
Working for a Generous God
Mar 15, 2023
The Parable of the Sower
Mar 15, 2023
Forgive Your Parents
Mar 08, 2023
You Are Light
Mar 08, 2023
My Favorite Book in the Bible
Feb 28, 2023
A Review of "God's Word: A Guide to Holy Scripture" by John Kleinig
Feb 28, 2023
How God Loves Us: The Meaning of "So," John 3:16
Feb 15, 2023
How God Loves Us: The Sound of Salvation, Zephaniah 3:17
Feb 14, 2023
How God Loves Us: Show Us Your Love, Exodus 34:6-7
Feb 14, 2023
Sing A New Song
Feb 11, 2023
The White Rose
Feb 08, 2023
The Hidden Glory
Feb 07, 2023
C.S. Lewis and the Four Loves
Feb 06, 2023
Preaching Predestination with Jim Nestingen
Feb 06, 2023
The Presentation of Our Lord
Feb 02, 2023
Law and Gospel in 2 Corinthians 3
Feb 01, 2023
I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins
Jan 23, 2023
Very Superstitious: A History of the Sign of the Cross
Jan 23, 2023
A Real Person
Jan 12, 2023
Another Look at the "Loving" Expert on the Law
Jan 11, 2023
An S.O.S to God
Jan 09, 2023
In the Stars
Jan 06, 2023
The Baby and the Wrath of God
Jan 05, 2023
The Christmas Story proclaimed in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Dec 28, 2022
Unavoidable Jesus: Good News on Christmas Eve
Dec 24, 2022
Christmas in Psalm 89: The King has Arrived
Dec 23, 2022
Christmas in Psalm 22: Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Dec 22, 2022
Pastor ChatGPT Is No Preacher
Dec 21, 2022
Christmas in Psalm 2: Futility is Funny
Dec 20, 2022
Church Fathers on Christmas: St. Bernard of Clairvoux
Dec 19, 2022
More Blessed to Receive than to Give
Dec 15, 2022
Finding the Catholic Luther: A Review of Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith by Todd Hains
Dec 14, 2022
Advent Rest
Dec 13, 2022
Church Fathers on Christmas: Athanasius
Dec 12, 2022
We Know All the Signs
Dec 09, 2022
Isaiah Prepares the Way for Jesus
Dec 09, 2022
Advent: The Season of Expectant Waiting
Dec 06, 2022
When Politics Predominates
Dec 02, 2022
He Who Comes
Dec 02, 2022
Advent Anticipation Through the Ages
Nov 30, 2022
The Theology of Midnights
Nov 29, 2022
Church Fathers on Christmas: John Chrysostom
Nov 28, 2022
The Alpha and Omega of Generosity
Nov 24, 2022
I wanted you to be here too
Nov 23, 2022
A Theologian's Instincts?
Nov 22, 2022
Refreshment for the Depressed Soul
Nov 21, 2022
Friends in Low Places
Nov 18, 2022
Your Son Died, You Own Nothing
Nov 16, 2022
A Life Hidden in Christ
Nov 14, 2022
Vitality in Pastoral Formation
Nov 11, 2022
You Were and You Are
Nov 09, 2022
Why Bother to Pray?
Nov 08, 2022
Adverbial vs. Prepositional Theology: What's the Difference?
Nov 08, 2022
1 John 5:13-21: The Front Porch of Our Father’s Home
Nov 04, 2022
Virgins in Hell
Nov 03, 2022
The Glory of the Lord: An Excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional
Nov 02, 2022
John of Ragusa: Prometheus of the Reformation
Nov 01, 2022
Why You Should Know About the Reformation
Oct 31, 2022
Visible and Invisible
Oct 27, 2022
How to Define Christian Community
Oct 27, 2022
That was not me
Oct 13, 2022
We Cannot Serve God and Mammon
Oct 11, 2022
How God uses Art to Preach His Word
Oct 06, 2022
What is the Gospel?
Oct 05, 2022
Preparing the Way for Christmas: An Excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional
Oct 04, 2022
Paul on Romans 1:16
Sep 29, 2022
Law and Gospel Done
Sep 27, 2022
1 John 3:13-24: The Given Life
Sep 26, 2022
Luther's German Bible
Sep 22, 2022
Luther's September Testament
Sep 21, 2022
Why Should I Forgive You?
Sep 19, 2022
Go Home Justified
Sep 14, 2022
A Dove More Powerful Than An Eagle
Sep 08, 2022
Forgiveness without God
Sep 05, 2022
The word, Word
Aug 31, 2022
An Epilogue of Eternal Consequence
Aug 30, 2022
Our Dissident Identity
Aug 29, 2022
Sermon on Luke 11:24–26
Aug 25, 2022
A True Fish Story
Aug 24, 2022
Your Church Isn't Jesus
Aug 23, 2022
Like Priest, Like People
Aug 22, 2022
1 John 2:1-11: Lovers and Liars
Aug 19, 2022
On Losing One's Life
Aug 18, 2022
We Cannot Hack God's Word
Aug 16, 2022
1 John 1:5-10: The Reality of the Light
Aug 12, 2022
Trusting God in Trial
Aug 11, 2022
A Scriptural Reflection of Luther’s Small Catechism
Aug 10, 2022
Going Back to Square One
Aug 09, 2022
God is Great, God is Good
Aug 08, 2022
The Failure of the Modern Apologist
Aug 03, 2022
The Gospel of the Crucified Idiot
Aug 02, 2022
Faith, Hope, and Love
Aug 01, 2022
Gregory the Great, Pastoral Pope
Jul 29, 2022
Cyril of Alexandria, Saint and Sinner
Jul 28, 2022
Augustine, The Doctor of the Church
Jul 27, 2022
Origen, the Humble Teacher
Jul 27, 2022
St. Irenaeus of Lyon, Champion of the Incarnation
Jul 27, 2022
Calling, Politics, and the City of God
Jul 22, 2022
A Hospitable God
Jul 21, 2022
Hate and Death Flipped Upside Down
Jul 20, 2022
An Impossible Standard...Attained!
Jul 13, 2022
Marx, Prayer, and Humanity
Jul 13, 2022
It's Good To Be Lost
Jun 17, 2022
Covering Your Debt
Jun 16, 2022
Adopted
Jun 15, 2022
By Grace Or Karma
Jun 14, 2022
Redemption
Jun 13, 2022
Malachi’s Message of the Maker’s Love
Jun 06, 2022
Not Drunk As You Suppose
Jun 03, 2022
Reforming Worship
Jun 02, 2022
Trusting in What You Cannot See
Jun 02, 2022
Everything Your Kid Needs to Know
Jun 02, 2022
Trusting in What You Cannot See
May 30, 2022
What We See in the Cross is Love
May 27, 2022
True Connection through Christ
May 26, 2022
Things I Learned From My Friend, Pastor Ron Hodel
May 25, 2022
Absolve Yourself!
May 23, 2022
How God Made Mary a Theologian of the Cross
May 19, 2022
Mere Christianity at 70
May 18, 2022
Pray...Even in the Dark
May 18, 2022
Catechizing Your Imagination
May 18, 2022
You are a God who Hides Himself
May 11, 2022
Rustling Leaves and a Guilty Conscience
May 09, 2022
God Has Swallowed Death, Whose Belly Christ Has Burst
May 06, 2022
Restored to Life
May 04, 2022
What the Women at the Tomb Reveal about God's Redemption
May 03, 2022
Judas at Mass
May 02, 2022
Evangelical Freedom
Apr 27, 2022
Do the Words of Baptism Matter?
Apr 27, 2022
Graciously Keep Me This Night
Apr 22, 2022
I Kind of Like It
Apr 21, 2022
A Review of the Psalms Commentary by James M. Hamilton, Jr.
Apr 20, 2022
It Is Finished
Apr 15, 2022
You Are Bloody Forgiven
Apr 14, 2022
God's Transitive Grace
Apr 13, 2022
Lost & Found: The Purpose of Jesus' Parables
Apr 12, 2022
Easter is Overrated
Apr 11, 2022
Behold Your King
Apr 11, 2022
Bad Times Don't Last, But Bad Guys Do
Apr 11, 2022
The Truth and Beauty of Jesus’ Resurrection
Apr 06, 2022
The End of Ethics
Apr 06, 2022
An Unintended Sermon
Mar 31, 2022
God's Command to Save You
Mar 30, 2022
The Lord’s Crumbs
Mar 28, 2022
Love Begets Love
Mar 26, 2022
Sacred Spaces and Holy Places
Mar 24, 2022
The Book of Esther and the Name of God
Mar 23, 2022
What Does Lent Mean to You?
Mar 22, 2022
You Can Die Now
Mar 17, 2022
The Stupid Monk at The Diet at Worms (Part 3)
Mar 11, 2022
Fearless Repentance
Mar 11, 2022
500th Anniversary: Luther’s Invocavit Sermons (Part 2)
Mar 11, 2022
500th Anniversary: Luther’s Invocavit Sermons (Part 1)
Mar 08, 2022
The Veil of Moses and the Face of Christ
Mar 08, 2022
A Look at 2 Peter 3: The Stubborn Salvation of God
Mar 03, 2022
The Stupid Monk at The Diet at Worms: Part 2
Mar 01, 2022
The Word Did It All
Feb 24, 2022
The Stupid Monk at The Diet at Worms: Part One
Feb 22, 2022
The Most Shameful Thing I’ve Ever Done
Feb 22, 2022
No Other Name!
Feb 17, 2022
Doesn’t Everything Die at Last, and Too Soon?
Feb 16, 2022
Q & A, for The Augsburg Confession: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mark Mattes
Feb 15, 2022
The Miracle of Grace: A Review of Encanto
Feb 15, 2022
Test the Spirits
Feb 09, 2022
Remembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Feb 04, 2022
Victims & Villains
Feb 03, 2022
Rest Doesn't Come Cheap
Feb 03, 2022
The Longing Road
Feb 01, 2022
No Going Back
Feb 01, 2022
God's Mercy Never Dries Up
Jan 27, 2022
Jesus' Transfiguration and Disfiguration
Jan 24, 2022
Our Weekly Epiphany: Boring?
Jan 20, 2022
Peace for Simeon, and Us
Jan 15, 2022
The Words That Fill the Halls of Our Churches
Jan 13, 2022
Death and Rebirth in James McBride's Deacon King Kong
Jan 12, 2022
Losers Not Choosers
Jan 11, 2022
Jesus' Baptism
Jan 10, 2022
They Brought Gifts and So Do We
Jan 06, 2022
Why We Sing at Christmas
Jan 05, 2022
1517 Christmas Special
Dec 24, 2021
Christmas in Isaiah: A Child and a Son
Dec 23, 2021
Christmas in Isaiah: Dog Soldiers, Army Boots, and Baby Jesus
Dec 22, 2021
Christmas in Isaiah: Be Fruitful and Multiply
Dec 21, 2021
Christmas in Isaiah: The Dawning of a New Light
Dec 20, 2021
The Christmas Gift Phobia
Dec 16, 2021
Consider Jesus
Dec 15, 2021
Don't You Know My Own Story?
Dec 11, 2021
Bright Valley of Love: A Story for Preachers as Advent Turns Toward Christmas
Dec 09, 2021
The Lord Will Relent
Dec 08, 2021
QAnon, Christianity, and Belief in a Resurrection
Dec 07, 2021
Christ’s Incarnation and the Imagination
Dec 06, 2021
The Word Made Flesh - Implications of the Incarnation: The Incarnation is New Creation
Dec 04, 2021
The Days Are Coming
Dec 02, 2021
Advent's Double Helix
Dec 01, 2021
The Antidote to "Sadvent"
Nov 30, 2021
The Family Table
Nov 25, 2021
The Lord’s Thanksgiving
Nov 24, 2021
Jehoram, Jehoshaphat, and Jesus
Nov 23, 2021
Your Pastor Is Not Your Therapist: Private Confession
Nov 19, 2021
A Reformation of the Imagination
Nov 12, 2021
When We Miscommunicate Our Prayers
Nov 11, 2021
The Bible and How to Read It - Part 4: How Do I Study It?
Nov 10, 2021
The Fear of Forgiveness
Nov 06, 2021
What the 'Dad's on Duty' can teach us about God the Father
Nov 05, 2021
Under What Bridge Am I Going to Live with My Kids?
Nov 04, 2021
Do You Want to Be Healed?
Nov 03, 2021
Reformation Day: Cancerous Tumors and a 7th c. Prophet
Nov 01, 2021
Not Guilty! A Sermon for Reformation Day
Oct 30, 2021
The Century of the Holy Spirit
Oct 29, 2021
The Tragedy of an Incidental Christ
Oct 28, 2021
Geting Out of the Way of God's Promises
Oct 27, 2021
Erasmus versus Luther: Bound to Be Free (Part 8)
Oct 27, 2021
Navigating Life Under Christ's Sufficiency: A Review of The Jesus I Wish I Knew in High School
Oct 25, 2021
A Lot Can Happen in Forty-Five Seconds
Oct 23, 2021
The True and Better Naboth
Oct 20, 2021
Our One Foundation
Oct 16, 2021
Erasmus versus Luther - Bound to Be Free, Part 7
Oct 14, 2021
Running from Rest
Oct 13, 2021
Luther at Augsburg
Oct 11, 2021
The Mystery of Faith
Oct 09, 2021
"Faith" in the Mature Luther
Oct 08, 2021
Martha: Herald of the Gospel
Oct 07, 2021
Bo Giertz: A Regular Pastor
Oct 06, 2021
Imagination: A Handmaid of the Gospel
Oct 04, 2021
Remember Who You Are
Oct 01, 2021
Mary: When Gabriel was Frightened by Mary
Sep 30, 2021
So I Can Just Do Whatever I Want?
Sep 29, 2021
Good Words, Bad Words
Sep 27, 2021
In Search for the Meaning of Grace
Sep 24, 2021
Deborah and Jael: Thelma and Louise Defeat God's Enemies
Sep 23, 2021
Erasmus versus Luther: Bound to Be Free (Part 6)
Sep 22, 2021
The Bible and How to Read It. Part 2: How Do I Read It?
Sep 21, 2021
The Grace of Falling Up the Stairs
Sep 20, 2021
John Locke, Reason, and Revelation
Sep 01, 2021
The Day of Grace
Aug 30, 2021
Did I Blow My Chance with God?
Aug 27, 2021
Familiar Strangers: Comfort In Depression
Aug 26, 2021
The Two-Faced God
Aug 25, 2021
The Mountainous Gospel of God
Aug 23, 2021
Bernard of Clairvaux: Theologian of Love
Aug 20, 2021
Never Tell Me the Odds: On the Implausible and Improbable Deliverance of God
Aug 18, 2021
What God Created, God Will Grow
Aug 17, 2021
That's a Good Question: Can We Know When Jesus Will Return?
Aug 16, 2021
The Color Green
Aug 15, 2021
Erasmus versus Luther: Bound to be Free (Part 3)
Aug 13, 2021
The Eighth Beatitude: The Persecution of the Gospel
Aug 12, 2021
Gentle and Lowly: A Reflection on the Love that Will Not Let Us Go
Aug 11, 2021
A Q&A for "Urchin at War"
Aug 10, 2021
That's a Good Question: When is Baptism Not Valid
Aug 09, 2021
Theology 101, Under Bombs
Aug 06, 2021
Eat and Drink
Aug 05, 2021
Luther versus Erasmus: Bound to Be Free (Part 2)
Aug 05, 2021
That's a Good Question: Are We All Predestined to Either Heaven or Hell?
Aug 02, 2021
The Gospel and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
Jul 31, 2021
The Rock of Truth in the Storm of Fake News
Jul 31, 2021
The Sixth Beatitude: Makarios in a Crucible?
Jul 30, 2021
Luther Versus Erasmus: Bound to Be Free (Part 1)
Jul 30, 2021
That's a Good Question: What Should we do When the Church Lets us Down?
Jul 26, 2021
What Is the Purpose of the Church?
Jul 24, 2021
Urchin at War: Introduction
Jul 23, 2021
A Lamp in a Dark World
Jul 21, 2021
A Q&A for The Christ Key
Jul 20, 2021
That's A Good Question: Is God Responsible for Death?
Jul 19, 2021
Pencil Sketches: How Old Testament Individuals Outlined the Messiah's Colorful Life
Jul 16, 2021
The Fourth Beatitude: More than Cornucopias for the Hungry
Jul 15, 2021
The Gospel According to Corduroy
Jul 15, 2021
A Kingdom of Sheathed Swords and Severed Ears
Jul 13, 2021
That's a Good Question: Once Saved, Always Saved?
Jul 12, 2021
A Letter to the Rural Church
Jul 10, 2021
The Trinity and the Gospel
Jul 09, 2021
The Third Beatitude: The Meek Are Not Pushovers
Jul 08, 2021
The Chosen: A Review
Jul 02, 2021
The Second Beatitude: From Tears to Joy
Jul 01, 2021
If God is for Us
Jun 30, 2021
Fathers
Jun 30, 2021
A Guide to the Augsburg Confession
Jun 25, 2021
Hiding Our Shame
Jun 23, 2021
Juneteenth and the Proclamation of Freedom
Jun 19, 2021
Some Thoughts on Christian Hope
Jun 19, 2021
The Scandalous Blessing of Makarios: An Introduction to the Beatitudes
Jun 19, 2021
Justas Jonas and the Important Thing
Jun 16, 2021
The Christian Men of Jane Eyre
Jun 16, 2021
I Have Put My Words in Your Mouth
Jun 16, 2021
Rainbows as the Color and Shape of Salvation
Jun 09, 2021
Our Summer Reading List
Jun 07, 2021
Gut-Wrenching Love
Jun 07, 2021
Paul’s Way of Reading Holy Scripture
Jun 07, 2021
Answering the Universal Inquiry of Humanity
Jun 07, 2021
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God (and That’s Not Enough)
May 31, 2021
The Answer to Our Longings: The Holy Trinity
May 29, 2021
The Religion of the Sacred Cow
May 28, 2021
Faith in a Sea of Unbelief
May 26, 2021
"Shoulding" On One Another
May 25, 2021
The Holy Spirit: The Gift and Gift-Giver
May 24, 2021
Pente-what?
May 22, 2021
A King Greater Than Solomon and a Place Better Than the Temple
May 21, 2021
God in the Arena
May 20, 2021
Something You Could Not Have Guessed
May 19, 2021
A Friend Like No Other
May 18, 2021
Why Are People Leaving Jurassic Park?
May 18, 2021
Being Free
May 13, 2021
The Ascension of Our Lord
May 13, 2021
Grief and Hope
May 10, 2021
Happy Mother's Day, Rachel Hollis
May 09, 2021
What is Prayer? An Excerpt from Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted
May 07, 2021
Alive Through Absolution
May 03, 2021
God Adds to The Number of Our Days
Apr 29, 2021
Just One Stone
Apr 28, 2021
When God Says No
Apr 28, 2021
What's Your Sign? Birth Charts and Astrology
Apr 26, 2021
Another 500th Anniversary: Luther at the Diet of Worms
Apr 17, 2021
Fed and Nourished
Apr 16, 2021
Gerhard Forde: A Recommendation
Apr 16, 2021
Psalm 23 and the Apostles' Creed
Apr 14, 2021
The Receiver of Wrecks
Apr 12, 2021
Christ's Words of Comfort: John 16:33
Apr 09, 2021
Christ's Words of Comfort: Matthew 5:4
Apr 08, 2021
Christ's Words of Comfort: Luke 12:32
Apr 07, 2021
Christ's Words of Comfort: John 14:27
Apr 06, 2021
Christ's Words of Comfort: John 3:16
Apr 06, 2021
God’s Sabbath Sleep: How Christ Filled in the Gap in the Creation Story
Apr 02, 2021
How to Survive Good Friday
Apr 02, 2021
Salvation in the Silence of God
Mar 31, 2021
Reading Proverbs and Receiving Criticism
Mar 30, 2021
The Seventh Petition: Deliver Us From Evil
Mar 30, 2021
My Bookshelf Is Bigger Than Yours
Mar 29, 2021
Working to the Glory of God: An Excerpt from Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing
Mar 24, 2021
Christian Freedom
Mar 23, 2021
Who Can Erase Diamond-Point Sins?
Mar 22, 2021
Lord of All
Mar 19, 2021
Repentance According to the Scriptures: 1 John 1:8-9
Mar 19, 2021
The Sixth Petition: Lead Us Not into Temptation
Mar 18, 2021
Something is Driving You
Mar 17, 2021
Lord Help Me Get One More
Mar 16, 2021
Jesus > Moses
Mar 15, 2021
Shawshank Redemption and Confession of Sin
Mar 13, 2021
Repentance According to the Scriptures: Acts 2:37–39
Mar 12, 2021
The Fifth Petition: Forgive Us Our Debts as We Forgive Our Debtors
Mar 11, 2021
We are Known By God
Mar 11, 2021
A Q&A with David Andersen on "Defense of Christian Ritual
Mar 09, 2021
Why Lent Offers us a Curious Kind of Joy
Mar 09, 2021
Is Jesus the Only Way? Yes and No
Mar 08, 2021
Thankful for the Joy of People
Mar 06, 2021
The Fourth Petition: Give Us this Day Our Daily Bread
Mar 04, 2021
The God Who Speaks
Mar 03, 2021
The Demon of Acedia
Mar 02, 2021
The Real Church Pandemic is Nostalgia
Mar 01, 2021
A Review of Flame's "Christ for You
Feb 26, 2021
Repentance According to the Scriptures: Mark 1:1-8
Feb 26, 2021
Why God Works Through Words
Feb 25, 2021
The Third Petition: Your Will Be Done
Feb 25, 2021
Man, Woman, and the First Sin
Feb 23, 2021
What to do When Life Goes to Pieces
Feb 22, 2021
The Sandlot Gospel
Feb 20, 2021
Repentance According to the Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14
Feb 19, 2021
The Second Petition: Your Kingdom Come
Feb 18, 2021
Surveying Our Soiled Condition, and the Condition of our Soil
Feb 17, 2021
How to be Human Again
Feb 16, 2021
When a Church Plant Closes it's Doors
Feb 15, 2021
A Different Kind of Word
Feb 13, 2021
Cotton Mather's Quest for Assurance
Feb 12, 2021
Revisiting Our Father
Feb 11, 2021
Revisiting Our Father
Feb 11, 2021
Liberated to be Excitedly Ordinary
Feb 10, 2021
A Q&A with Ken Sundet Jones on "A Lutheran Toolkit"
Feb 10, 2021
God's Résumé of Faithfulness
Feb 08, 2021
Mountaintop Words
Feb 05, 2021
What Do I Have to Give?
Feb 03, 2021
A Christian is Pulled Between Two Extremes
Feb 02, 2021
Liturgy for the Unprecedented and the Ordinary
Feb 01, 2021
Preaching that Gives Certainty
Jan 29, 2021
Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Jan 28, 2021
Why Does Our God Have Many Names?
Jan 26, 2021
Catching Jesus' Ear
Jan 26, 2021
Death's End According to Poet John Donne
Jan 26, 2021
What Happens When the Gospel Isn’t Threatened
Jan 20, 2021
The Cancel Culture of Grace
Jan 20, 2021
A Tale of Two Professors
Jan 18, 2021
Receving a New Name: Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 18, 2021
The Secret to Growing Your Faith
Jan 14, 2021
Conspiracy Theories, Law, and Salvation
Jan 14, 2021
When Salt Loses It's Taste
Jan 08, 2021
I'll be Home for Epiphany
Jan 06, 2021
Dominus Mortis
Jan 04, 2021
God's Unmasked Face
Jan 04, 2021
The Sad State of My Backyard
Dec 31, 2020
Inspiration from Mr. Rogers about Coping with a Pandemic
Dec 30, 2020
The Mystery of God's Incarnation
Dec 29, 2020
A Living Word
Dec 28, 2020
God is not Dead nor Does He Sleep: Christmas Bells in 2020
Dec 23, 2020
Waiting with Simeon
Dec 22, 2020
Are You the One Who Is to Come?
Dec 21, 2020
Jesus Published and Blazed Forth
Dec 21, 2020
Fruitful Solitude: Thoughts About Loneliness During the Holidays
Dec 21, 2020
To Us a Child is Born: Prince of Peace
Dec 21, 2020
Waiting with Hannah
Dec 16, 2020
An Advent Ransom Note
Dec 16, 2020
To Us a Child is Born: Everlasting Father
Dec 15, 2020
Surviving the Dark Night: St John of the Cross
Dec 14, 2020
The Puzzle of Sin
Dec 11, 2020
Waiting Like Sarah
Dec 10, 2020
The Message of Advent Never Changes
Dec 10, 2020
Who was Anselm of Canterbury?
Dec 04, 2020
For Those Who Wait: Abraham
Dec 03, 2020
Advent Time
Dec 03, 2020
A Message on Giving Tuesday
Dec 02, 2020
Happy Thanksgiving, Now and Then
Nov 24, 2020
Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart
Nov 24, 2020
What is the Difference Between Faith and Hope
Nov 20, 2020
Resilient Kids
Nov 18, 2020
Sanctification: The Powerful Pardon
Nov 18, 2020
Jesus has Overcome Evil
Nov 17, 2020
A Poet's Conversation with Love
Nov 17, 2020
God's Faithfulness in the Fire
Nov 13, 2020
Rethinking Social Justice
Nov 12, 2020
The Gift of Marriage
Nov 11, 2020
A Q&A with Chad Bird on "Unveiling Mercy: 365 Daily Devotions on Insights from Old Testament Hebrew
Nov 10, 2020
Firstborn Sons: Our Family History and Our New Identity
Nov 10, 2020
The Painful Problem of Evil
Nov 06, 2020
What is God's Will for the Election?
Nov 04, 2020
In Christ, We Are Free to Vote, Work, and Worship
Nov 03, 2020
Hosea and Flannery O’Connor
Oct 30, 2020
Reasons to Rejoice
Oct 28, 2020
The Trouble with Dressing Up
Oct 27, 2020
Killing in the Name Of
Oct 27, 2020
In Defense of Martin Luther
Oct 27, 2020
The Absolution I Didn't Want
Oct 26, 2020
Everyone Wants to Get to Heaven, But No One Wants to Die
Oct 22, 2020
Christian Freedom and Our Righteousness
Oct 21, 2020
With the Lord I Need Nothing More
Oct 21, 2020
Christian Freedom and the Imagination
Oct 19, 2020
Freedom For, Not From Our Neighbors
Oct 15, 2020
Freedom Under Attack
Oct 15, 2020
Luther's Doctrine on the Freedom of the Christian
Oct 15, 2020
How to Be Holy
Oct 13, 2020
Eucharist and the Council of Trent
Oct 12, 2020
Christian Freedom, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Neighbor
Oct 09, 2020
Freedom in the Hands of Our Protector
Oct 06, 2020
Satisfied with Faith
Oct 06, 2020
There's Two of Us In Here
Oct 06, 2020
Love that gives Freedom, Freedom that Produces Love
Oct 05, 2020
Luther at Marburg
Sep 30, 2020
Slavery, Freedom, and Bondage
Sep 30, 2020
Good Works Follow Faith
Sep 30, 2020
Michaelmas, Griffith Jones and the Protective Power of the Word
Sep 29, 2020
Sunshine In September: The Story of C.S. Lewis' Conversion
Sep 28, 2020
My Faith is Sufficient
Sep 23, 2020
Turning from American Secular Religion to Christ
Sep 22, 2020
Ecclesiastes: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
Sep 17, 2020
The Freedom of the Christian
Sep 16, 2020
If God is for us, who can be against us?
Sep 14, 2020
Is Scripture Literature?
Sep 14, 2020
A Different Kind of Catechism
Sep 11, 2020
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Sep 10, 2020
Talking to the Devil
Sep 09, 2020
The Most Beautiful Days of Our Lives
Sep 07, 2020
Predestination is for Preaching
Sep 07, 2020
Way, Way Back Reflection
Sep 04, 2020
Not the Gift I Want
Sep 03, 2020
God's Devil
Sep 02, 2020
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Sep 01, 2020
Cyprian on Rebaptism
Aug 31, 2020
Baptism as My Comfort
Aug 27, 2020
Sing that Song Again
Aug 27, 2020
The Kingdom of Heaven Is Near
Aug 27, 2020
What Does It Take to Be a Christian?
Aug 25, 2020
Why Paul?
Aug 24, 2020
The Role of the Gospel Amidst Change
Aug 18, 2020
The Broken Deal
Aug 18, 2020
The Help We Need for Down Days
Aug 18, 2020
Justification and the Sinner-Saint
Aug 17, 2020
Unity in the Lord's Prayer
Aug 11, 2020
A New Birth of Art: The Legacy of Albrecht Dürer
Aug 11, 2020
Can You See a Name?
Aug 10, 2020
A Q&A with Bror Erickson on "Faith Alone, The Heart of Everything
Aug 10, 2020
Jesus: Revealer of Truth
Aug 10, 2020
Released from Double Jeopardy
Aug 04, 2020
Fleeting Made Whole
Aug 03, 2020
Heart of Fear, Heart of Bravery
Aug 03, 2020
Faith Alone
Aug 03, 2020
Acceptable Prayers
Jul 28, 2020
Remembering Rembrandt
Jul 27, 2020
Comfort When You Don't Feel Like Praising God
Jul 27, 2020
We Didn't Know What Was in the Backpack
Jul 21, 2020
Luther and the Leipzig Debate
Jul 21, 2020
Worldly Lies Speak Against God's Truth
Jul 21, 2020
How Should We Pray?
Jul 21, 2020
Facial Hair, the Gospel, and God's Word for You
Jul 14, 2020
Unimagined Freedom and Forgiveness in Hamilton
Jul 14, 2020
Gospel Comfortable or Gospel Comfort?
Jul 13, 2020
A Q&A with Scott Ashmon on "Who Am I? Exploring Your Identity through Your Vocations
Jul 13, 2020
What the Radical Reformation Can Teach Us About Assurance
Jul 13, 2020
United in the Father by the Son
Jul 07, 2020
No Sob Story Needed
Jul 07, 2020
Seeing in the Dark
Jul 07, 2020
Slaves to Fear or Free in Christ?
Jul 07, 2020
The Secrets Are in the Dirt
Jul 06, 2020
Citizenship in the Christian Tradition
Jun 30, 2020
Edward John Carnell: Defender of the Faith
Jun 30, 2020
Out of Place Comfort
Jun 29, 2020
Wellspring of the Joy of Living
Jun 23, 2020
Our Signed and Sealed Adoption
Jun 23, 2020
Scripture Interprets Scripture: What Does this Mean?
Jun 23, 2020
Which Party are We Invited To?
Jun 23, 2020
You Can't Handle God
Jun 22, 2020
Every Christian Funeral is an Easter Celebration
Jun 15, 2020
God's Upside Down Glory
Jun 15, 2020
A Word from the God of Comfort
Jun 15, 2020
Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate
Jun 15, 2020
Go Tell Jesus
Jun 15, 2020
The Difference between Philosophy and Theology: Following in Luther's Footsteps
Jun 10, 2020
Putting On the Neighbor
Jun 10, 2020
The Gospels: What Are They?
Jun 07, 2020
Jesus Drowns Out The Storm Waves
Jun 07, 2020
What Makes a Theologian of the Cross?
Jun 07, 2020
Reading the Revelation
Jun 05, 2020
God's Word in Crisis
Jun 04, 2020
Spiritual Care Under Persecution
Jun 03, 2020
No Justice, No Peace
Jun 02, 2020
Our Pandemic Righteousness
Jun 01, 2020
What Diet Coke Taught Me About Pentecost
May 26, 2020
Pentecost in Context
May 26, 2020
Reading Revelation in Light of the Old Testament
May 26, 2020
Strength to Forgive
May 26, 2020
The Suffering Away of Hell
May 25, 2020
The Lamb Who Was Slain Has Begun His Reign
May 21, 2020
The Ascension is No Ugly Stepsister
May 21, 2020
Death in the Stream: Hemingway on How Far Natural Theology Takes Us
May 18, 2020
Lord, Save Us From Corona
May 18, 2020
Bible Stories Too Dangerous for Sunday Morning
May 18, 2020
Q&A for Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah with Author Steve Kruschel
May 14, 2020
Understanding Paul's Allegory of Hagar and Sarah
May 14, 2020
Christ, the Center of Revelation
May 13, 2020
Bridegroom of Blood
May 12, 2020
Life Together During a Quarantine
May 12, 2020
Pastoral Prophet Excerpt 2: Jeremiah 29
May 08, 2020
God Picks You!
May 07, 2020
Christian Hope
May 06, 2020
When the Spirit Goes Marching In
May 06, 2020
Pastoral Prophet Excerpt 1
May 06, 2020
Out of Fatherly, Divine, Goodness and Mercy
Apr 30, 2020
Concerning Centurions and the Salvation of a Soldier’s Soul
Apr 29, 2020
We Were Enemies Once
Apr 28, 2020
A Love Story
Apr 28, 2020
Elisabeth Cruciger: Hymn Writer of the Reformation
Apr 24, 2020
The Unreturned Gift
Apr 23, 2020
That Should Have Been Something!
Apr 22, 2020
Today, Life is Chosen for Us
Apr 21, 2020
Thomas' Easter Story and Yours
Apr 20, 2020
Reading Fairy Tales in a Pandemic
Apr 13, 2020
Ordinary and Extraordinary Business
Apr 08, 2020
Struggling to Die and Live
Apr 07, 2020
Grieving with Jesus
Apr 06, 2020
No Means...What?
Apr 03, 2020
The One Who Justifies the Ungodly
Apr 01, 2020
Temptation’s Green Pastures: The Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer
Mar 26, 2020
Behold the Handmaiden of the Lord: Mary as the Model Christian Disciple
Mar 25, 2020
Hurt the Hive, Hurt the Bees
Mar 25, 2020
Cutting Hair and Saying Prayers: Luther on When, How, and What to Prayer
Mar 25, 2020
The Man From Whom C. S. Lewis Borrowed Most of His Ideas
Mar 20, 2020
The Root of It All: The Fifth Petition of the Lord's Prayer
Mar 19, 2020
Paul and the Resurrection
Mar 19, 2020
Apostle of Ireland: St. Patrick's Life and Ministry
Mar 18, 2020
Paul and the Resurrection: Q&A with Author Joshua Pagán
Mar 18, 2020
The Good News that We Can't Help Anyone
Mar 16, 2020
Understanding Jesus’ Parables
Mar 12, 2020
No More Monsters
Mar 12, 2020
Gathering up Our Dust During Lent
Mar 09, 2020
Martin Niemöller: Controversial Confessor
Mar 06, 2020
The Worst Prayer to Pray: The Third Petition of the Lord's Prayer
Mar 05, 2020
Binding Up the Brokenhearted
Mar 04, 2020
How to Get God to Give Us Everything We Want
Mar 03, 2020
Where Jesus Is Found
Mar 03, 2020
No Ordinary Kingdom: The Second Petition of the Lord’s Prayer
Feb 27, 2020
The Ashes of Hope
Feb 26, 2020
If God Would Just Choose Someone Else
Feb 25, 2020
Transfiguration and our Lenses of Glory.
Feb 24, 2020
Remembering Anselm of Canterbury
Feb 21, 2020
Given God's Name: The First Petition of the Lord's Prayer
Feb 20, 2020
Glimpses of Glory: Transfiguration and Cross
Feb 19, 2020
The Pilgrim's Promise
Feb 18, 2020
When Sin, Death, and Satan Declare War
Feb 17, 2020
Redeeming St. Valentine
Feb 14, 2020
The Introduction: Our Father Who Art in Heaven
Feb 14, 2020
The Psychology of Crucifixion
Feb 12, 2020
Q&A for Finding Christ in the Straw
Feb 11, 2020
The God of Suicides and Evil People
Feb 10, 2020
The Patience of Job
Feb 07, 2020
The Need to Recapture Catechesis
Feb 06, 2020
An American Myth Meets the Gospel of Jesus
Feb 05, 2020
Why God Hides Himself from Us
Feb 04, 2020
Faithless to Fearless
Feb 03, 2020
How to Suffer Well
Jan 30, 2020
John the Baptist on the Necessity of Baptism
Jan 30, 2020
The Gospel is a Noun
Jan 29, 2020
Baptism Gives Us Everything
Jan 28, 2020
Pelagianism and Pelagius
Jan 27, 2020
Good Gifts
Jan 24, 2020
Let Us Sing Our Faith
Jan 23, 2020
Third Sunday After Epiphany: John 4:27-42
Jan 23, 2020
The Answer to All Our Questions About Salvation and Vocation
Jan 21, 2020
The Law and the Conscience: An Excerpt from Martin Luther's Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
Jan 17, 2020
Limping In The Faith: How the Narrative Order of Scripture Teaches the Gospel
Jan 16, 2020
Come and See
Jan 14, 2020
There's Nothing Wrong with You
Jan 14, 2020
Law, Gospel, and Politics
Jan 14, 2020
The Light of Your Christ
Jan 06, 2020
The Pastor’s Office as a Life-Giving Tomb: A Case For Private Absolution
Dec 30, 2019
Very Human Disciples
Dec 30, 2019
A New You
Dec 30, 2019
The Name of Jesus" and New Years Day
Dec 30, 2019
The Name of Jesus" and New Years Day
Dec 30, 2019
By Gracious Powers: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Prayer for a New Year
Dec 30, 2019
The Curious Tale of the Three Kings and their Belated Christmas Carol
Dec 23, 2019
The End is in Sight
Dec 23, 2019
Like A Kid On Christmas
Dec 23, 2019
Where All Men Are At Home
Dec 23, 2019
The Promises of Advent: Resurrected
Dec 23, 2019
The Promises of Advent: Suffered and Died
Dec 20, 2019
In Memory of Katharina von Bora, Part 2
Dec 19, 2019
Silent Night
Dec 18, 2019
Joy to the World
Dec 18, 2019
With Jesus, There's Always Room for Us"
Dec 17, 2019
The Promises of Advent: Born in the Midst of Suffering
Dec 16, 2019
The Good News that We Can't Save Ourselves
Dec 16, 2019
The Promises of Advent: Son of Abraham
Dec 16, 2019
In Memory of Katharina von Bora, Part 1
Dec 13, 2019
Third Sunday in Advent: Matthew 11:2-11
Dec 13, 2019
When Brokenness isn't Enough
Dec 05, 2019
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Dec 05, 2019
The Promises of Advent: Born of a Virgin
Dec 04, 2019
The Promises of Advent: Will Conquer Satan
Dec 03, 2019
The Church is Hidden, the Saints Concealed
Nov 26, 2019
Thanksgiving with Capon
Nov 26, 2019
Give Us This Day Our Daily Thanksgiving
Nov 26, 2019
What is God's Will for My Life?
Nov 25, 2019
Between Fear and Hatred: Two Kinds of Divine Hiddenness
Nov 25, 2019
Rescuing religion from culture: Friedrich E.D. Schleiermacher and the origins of Liberal Theology
Nov 21, 2019
Is Absolution a Sacrament?
Nov 20, 2019
As Real as it Gets
Nov 19, 2019
Jesus' Harsh Words
Nov 18, 2019
A Thanksgiving Day Sermon
Nov 15, 2019
How Do You Know They Are "the One" Part 2 of 2
Nov 14, 2019
Will I Ever Know True Love?
Nov 12, 2019
Grace and Lawlessness
Nov 07, 2019
Thy Kingdom Come: Waiting for Heaven in an Age of Instant Gratification
Nov 07, 2019
The Way Home
Nov 06, 2019
Prepare for Suffering
Nov 05, 2019
When the Dead Preach the Gospel
Nov 04, 2019
A Look at 2 Peter 3: The Stubborn Salvation of God
Nov 01, 2019
Reformation Day: Hey Beggar, You're Free!
Oct 31, 2019
Halloween and Christian Freedom
Oct 30, 2019
Jesus Will Humble You, and That's Good
Oct 29, 2019
On Freedom in Christ and the Parable of the Forgiving Father
Oct 28, 2019
Confessing the Father's Confession About the Son
Oct 25, 2019
Am I Really Included?
Oct 23, 2019
Baptized into Christ, a Child of Paradise
Oct 22, 2019
Remember Your Death
Oct 21, 2019
I Believe
Oct 14, 2019
A Look at 2 Peter 2: Has God Truly Said?
Oct 14, 2019
A Gracious Invitation
Oct 14, 2019
Our Savior Today
Oct 14, 2019
Christ's Limitless Atonement
Oct 14, 2019
Q&A for "Where Two or Three Are Gathered"
Oct 11, 2019
A look at 2 Peter 1: Not a Cleverly Invented Story
Oct 10, 2019
Dorothy L. Sayers and The Council of Chalcedon
Oct 09, 2019
Glorious Scars
Oct 09, 2019
What Does this Mean: Union with Christ
Oct 07, 2019
Friendship and the Apologetics of Imagination
Oct 04, 2019
A Look at 1 and 2 Peter: Intro to 2 Peter
Oct 03, 2019
Knock! Knock! Who's There?
Oct 02, 2019
Mercy for My Neighbor
Oct 01, 2019
Theology and Philosophy: In Conversation with Robert Jenson
Sep 30, 2019
Q&A with Wade Johnston for "Let the Bird Fly"
Sep 27, 2019
A Look at 1 Peter 5: Peace to All in Christ
Sep 26, 2019
The Faith We Share: How C.S. Lewis and the Apostles’ Creed Can Help Us Understand Christianity
Sep 24, 2019
Forgiveness is the Foundation
Sep 24, 2019
Crucified Expectations: The Great Reversal of the Cross
Sep 23, 2019
Where Two or Three Are Gathered: An Introduction
Sep 16, 2019
A Look at 1 Peter 4: Suffering for the Sake of Jesus
Sep 16, 2019
Original Sin: What Does this Mean?
Sep 16, 2019
Saxon Visitation Articles of 1592
Sep 16, 2019
The Lord's Table Will Not Be Empty
Sep 16, 2019
Two Kinds of Righteousness and Two Realms
Sep 11, 2019
A Look at 1 Peter 3: Baptism Now Saves You
Sep 11, 2019
The Great Storyteller
Sep 11, 2019
Christianity Isn't Complicated
Sep 09, 2019
Good Trees and Bad Trees
Sep 09, 2019
For You: An Answer to Anxiety
Sep 06, 2019
A Look at 1 Peter 2: That We May Be His Own
Sep 05, 2019
Whatever is Excellent
Sep 03, 2019
Life Is What Jesus Makes of it
Sep 03, 2019
I'm Glad You're With Me: Tolkien, Lewis, and the (not so) Great War
Sep 03, 2019
Why Real Conversation is Important for Apologetics
Aug 30, 2019
A Look at 1 Peter 1: The Good News that Was Preached to You
Aug 28, 2019
Christ in You, Christ for You
Aug 28, 2019
What Does God Give Us Today
Aug 26, 2019
How do you know they are "the One"? Part 1 of 2
Aug 26, 2019
Beyond Redemption
Aug 22, 2019
A Look at 1 and 2 Peter: Introduction to 1 Peter
Aug 22, 2019
Christmas in August and Handel's Messiah
Aug 21, 2019
Something More Powerful than Death
Aug 20, 2019
Chasing After the Holy Spirit
Aug 14, 2019
Is America A Christian Nation?
Aug 14, 2019
Simul Iustus et Peccator: What Does this Mean?
Aug 12, 2019
What Matters Most
Aug 12, 2019
Killed the Word
Aug 12, 2019
Preaching and Sola Scriptura
Aug 05, 2019
Hiroo Onoda and the Gospel of Reconciliation
Aug 05, 2019
Chasing the Spotlight
Aug 05, 2019
Killing Our Hero, Martin Luther
Aug 05, 2019
Let the Bird Fly
Jul 31, 2019
Celebrating Christmas in Galatians
Jul 31, 2019
The Birth of the NASB, Translation Soup, and The Only English Translation You’ll Ever Need
Jul 29, 2019
Pain is Our Birthright
Jul 29, 2019
Protected from Baptism
Jul 29, 2019
Q&A with Donavon Riley for "Crucifying Religion"
Jul 22, 2019
America the Free?
Jul 22, 2019
Happy Birthday, John Newton! Hymn Writer and Slave Trader (Or, What to do when our Heroes turn out to be Scoundrels)
Jul 22, 2019
Death, be not proud...
Jul 22, 2019
Human Rights: The Need
Jul 22, 2019
Jesus Lifted Up, By Us or For Us?
Jul 18, 2019
Anxiety, Depression, and the God Who Treats You Better Than You Can Imagine
Jul 15, 2019
Remembering the Scillitan Martyrs
Jul 15, 2019
Enough is Enough
Jul 15, 2019
Evangelism and the Comfort of Predestination
Jul 15, 2019
Jesus, the Key to Understanding the Bible
Jul 08, 2019
When You Can't Forget
Jul 08, 2019
Happy Birthday, John Calvin! Pastor, Theologian, Sinner, and Saint
Jul 08, 2019
God the Father
Jul 08, 2019
Three Words and the Truth
Jul 08, 2019
Three Popes and the Burning of Jan Hus
Jul 03, 2019
The Comfort of the Two Kingdoms
Jul 01, 2019
On Reading Broadly
Jul 01, 2019
When We Go to War with God
Jul 01, 2019
Freedom from Food Piety
Jul 01, 2019
Crucifying Religion
Jun 24, 2019
Font to Table: Need for the Creeds - Why Do We Recite Them?
Jun 24, 2019
Why History Matters to the Christian
Jun 24, 2019
Time Doesn't Heal All Wounds, but Jesus Does
Jun 24, 2019
The Athanasian Creed and Its Importance
Jun 24, 2019
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theology of the Cross
Jun 19, 2019
Truth Serves Love
Jun 19, 2019
Blaise Pascal: Theologian of the Head and the Heart
Jun 19, 2019
Jesus is Unconquered
Jun 18, 2019
Staring into the Sun
Jun 17, 2019
Luther's Counsel for Miscarriage
Jun 14, 2019
The Little Story
Jun 13, 2019
Do I Have to Go to Church?
Jun 12, 2019
Water, Blood, and Spirit...That's the Thing
Jun 11, 2019
A Communion of Saints for the Forgiveness of Sins
Jun 10, 2019
Luther's Counsel for the Worried and Anxious
Jun 07, 2019
Sunday Before Pentecost
Jun 07, 2019
The Way of Wisdom
Jun 05, 2019
He Does it For Love
Jun 04, 2019
Luther's Counsel for the Sick and Dying
Jun 03, 2019
Can Christianity and Science Coexist?
Jun 03, 2019
Luther's Counsel on Persecution
May 31, 2019
Ascending Downward: When the Manger Becomes the Cosmos
May 30, 2019
Without a Doubt
May 29, 2019
Jesus is Our True Happiness
May 28, 2019
Post-Easter Musings
May 27, 2019
Luther's Counsel for the Bereaved
May 24, 2019
Scripture, Not as It Seems to You, but as It Is for You
May 22, 2019
Dante and Our Obsession with Hell
May 21, 2019
How Jesus Will King for Us
May 20, 2019
For You
May 20, 2019
Font to Table: Why Does the Pastor Wear That?
May 16, 2019
For the Baptized, This is How it Goes
May 15, 2019
The American Story in Light of the Gospel
May 14, 2019
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
May 13, 2019
Luther's Counsel for Those Dealing with Depression
May 10, 2019
The Gospel for Lukewarm Christians
May 09, 2019
Heresy, Deconstruction and What to Do About It
May 07, 2019
God Doesn't Give Us a Pass, and That's Good
May 07, 2019
The Good Destruction
May 06, 2019
George Whitefield Arrives in America
May 03, 2019
Why We Are All Theologians of Glory
May 02, 2019
Moving Beyond Your Personality Type
May 02, 2019
Beyond Our Grasp
Apr 29, 2019
The Psalms on His Lips
Apr 25, 2019
Living on Resurrection Time
Apr 25, 2019
The Blood of Christ Does What?
Apr 24, 2019
Easter Zombies and the Hope of Resurrection
Apr 22, 2019
I Shall Live
Apr 22, 2019
It is Finished
Apr 17, 2019
Looking for the Lamb
Apr 15, 2019
Cursed by a Name
Apr 15, 2019
When God Gets a Grip On Us
Apr 15, 2019
A Spirit-Wrought Confession in the Midst of Suffering
Apr 15, 2019
4 1/2 Words to Know for Holy Week
Apr 12, 2019
The Day of Choosing
Apr 12, 2019
Church Membership and the Gospel
Apr 08, 2019
The Seed Does it All
Apr 08, 2019
A Q&A with Mark Mattes on Law and Gospel in Action: Foundations, Ethics, and Church
Apr 08, 2019
The Vindicated Lord
Apr 08, 2019
Our Great Worship Leader
Apr 05, 2019
Goodbye Alleluia
Apr 04, 2019
Blessed is the Man Who by Faith is Saved
Apr 01, 2019
Who Told You? On Being Afraid in Sunday School
Apr 01, 2019
Your Jesus Has Made You Well
Apr 01, 2019
Romans 8: Life in the Spirit
Mar 25, 2019
You Are Not Your Sin
Mar 25, 2019
Always Preach the Law, if Necessary Use Words
Mar 25, 2019
Come to Me...and I Will Give You Rest
Mar 25, 2019
The Feast of Easter
Mar 25, 2019
Carried to the Table of the King
Mar 18, 2019
What About Higher Criticism?
Mar 18, 2019
The Ones Who Don't Do Anything
Mar 18, 2019
The Hills of Salvation
Mar 18, 2019
The War for Our Freedom
Mar 18, 2019
Steadfast Love
Mar 11, 2019
Christ Who Becomes Our Sin
Mar 11, 2019
Practice Your Righteousness in Fasting
Mar 11, 2019
I Confess: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Gospel
Mar 11, 2019
A Life Interrupted
Mar 11, 2019
You Can't Baptize Hedonism
Mar 07, 2019
When Christ Sings for You
Mar 07, 2019
Marked
Mar 06, 2019
Jesus' New Exodus
Mar 04, 2019
The Feast of Transfiguration
Mar 01, 2019
One Substance with the Father
Feb 28, 2019
Balaam's Donkey
Feb 27, 2019
What Happens When Jesus is Separated from the Gospel
Feb 26, 2019
God Lifts the Weight Off
Feb 25, 2019
A More Promising Approach to the Gospel
Feb 22, 2019
Font to Table: The Deeper Meaning Behind Baptismal Fonts
Feb 21, 2019
Baptizing the Thief on the Cross
Feb 20, 2019
The Hidden Fences of the Law
Feb 19, 2019
God Speaks to Us to Give Us Gifts
Feb 18, 2019
Meeting Melanchthon
Feb 15, 2019
Pirates of the Reformation
Feb 14, 2019
How Can You Be Certain of the Call?
Feb 13, 2019
Theology in the Real World
Feb 12, 2019
Is there Good News for Disabled People?
Feb 11, 2019
Christ: Evolved Humanity or God in Flesh?
Feb 11, 2019
The Atonement: What is it and Why Does it Matter?
Feb 07, 2019
Reversing Death
Feb 06, 2019
Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment
Feb 05, 2019
Defeat Evil with Good
Feb 04, 2019
How to be Unapologetic in 2019
Feb 04, 2019
Jesus Ruins the Cause
Jan 31, 2019
Jesus and Pint-Sized Preachers
Jan 30, 2019
Jesus Increases People's Gladness
Jan 29, 2019
Why Ok is Everything
Jan 28, 2019
Love that Brings Freedom
Jan 25, 2019
We Go To God with Bold Confidence
Jan 24, 2019
History is Written by the Victim
Jan 23, 2019
Why Do So Many Churches Have Red Doors?
Jan 22, 2019
God's Two Contradictory Words
Jan 21, 2019
Do You Hear This Song of Freedom
Jan 18, 2019
Our Sins Are Either With Us or With Jesus
Jan 17, 2019
It's Time To Take Christ Out of Christmas
Jan 16, 2019
The Legacy of Thomas Cranmer
Jan 14, 2019
Epiphany In Middle-earth
Jan 14, 2019
God Uses Our Hands
Jan 09, 2019
Who Speaks for God?
Jan 08, 2019
A Church for Amnesiacs
Jan 08, 2019
After Epiphany: The Rest of the Story
Jan 08, 2019
The Birth of the Confessing Church
Jan 04, 2019
The Two Lies
Jan 04, 2019
Our Identity Crisis
Jan 03, 2019
Every Day is New Year's Day
Jan 03, 2019
Resolutions and Forgiveness
Dec 31, 2018
The Groan of All Creation
Dec 31, 2018
Lo, How a Rose
Dec 27, 2018
Come, Lord Jesus, Come
Dec 26, 2018
In the Good Lord's Time, Christ Appeared
Dec 25, 2018
Merry Christmas, Charles the Great!
Dec 24, 2018
The Grieving of the Hopeful
Dec 21, 2018
Jesus, the Light of the World
Dec 20, 2018
When Up Comes Down
Dec 18, 2018
Advent and the Preacher of Repentance
Dec 18, 2018
Where Do We Look for Jesus to Come?
Dec 17, 2018
Our Empty Hope Chest
Dec 14, 2018
Mary's Magnificat
Dec 13, 2018
Gods Christmas Name
Dec 12, 2018
Preaching the End of the World
Dec 11, 2018
Luther on the Verge: Burning the Papal Bull
Dec 10, 2018
Love Cannot Be Hopeless
Dec 07, 2018
Savior of the Nations, Christmas for the Heathens!
Dec 06, 2018
The Gifts of Luther's Reformation
Dec 05, 2018
The Absurdity of Advent
Dec 04, 2018
The Song of Zechariah
Dec 03, 2018
Oh Death, Where is Your Sting?
Nov 30, 2018
Getting on God's Good Side
Nov 29, 2018
The Mystery of a God Beyond All Comprehension
Nov 28, 2018
Pesky Questions
Nov 27, 2018
Handing Over the Goods
Nov 26, 2018
Shocked by Hope in the R-Rated Book of God
Nov 22, 2018
A Simple Thanksgiving
Nov 22, 2018
Give Thanks to the Lamb
Nov 22, 2018
Jesus is the Death of death
Nov 20, 2018
Enough is Enough
Nov 20, 2018
Enough is Enough
Nov 19, 2018
Redline Bikes, Grace, and the God of Hope
Nov 16, 2018
God Can Hardly Wait Fix That
Nov 15, 2018
There is Only One Who is Permanent
Nov 13, 2018
The Mirror Never Lies
Nov 13, 2018
How Dreams Die
Nov 12, 2018
The Grace Growing up in the Weeds
Nov 09, 2018
Betrayal and the Plunge
Nov 08, 2018
Enthusiasm and the Enthusiasts
Nov 07, 2018
Enthusiasm and the Enthusiasts
Nov 07, 2018
Election Hacking
Nov 03, 2018
Reformation Day: 501 Years Later
Oct 31, 2018
The Tolkien Option: Consolation and Eucatastrophe
Oct 30, 2018
The Almost Forgiven
Oct 29, 2018
The Dangers of Shallow Sanctification
Oct 26, 2018
Cutting Off Our Sin
Oct 26, 2018
The Gospel is Only for Consumers
Oct 25, 2018
Undeserving Losers Welcomed to the Party
Oct 23, 2018
The Good News of Suffering
Oct 23, 2018
An Introduction to Luther's Theology of the Cross
Oct 19, 2018
Patience Under the Mercy of Christ
Oct 17, 2018
The Good News of Belonging
Oct 17, 2018
Walking in Forgiveness
Oct 16, 2018
Five Ways Apologetics Can Respond to Postmodernity
Oct 15, 2018
Theses 27-28: Love for the Unlovable
Oct 15, 2018
What If and What Is
Oct 09, 2018
Freed From the Law to be For the Law
Oct 09, 2018
Our Daughter Problem
Oct 09, 2018
The Law, Between Fear and Freedom
Oct 08, 2018
Theses 25-26: The Final Turn
Oct 05, 2018
Considering the Weaker Brother?
Oct 04, 2018
Getting Saved, Doing Nothing
Oct 03, 2018
Two Kings, Two Kingdoms
Oct 02, 2018
The Abandoned
Oct 01, 2018
Theses 22-24: The Wisdom of the Cross
Sep 28, 2018
Your Jesus Has Saved You
Sep 27, 2018
A Very Expensive Six-Pack
Sep 27, 2018
The Belief Cure
Sep 25, 2018
Thesis 21: When Good is Evil and Evil is Good
Sep 25, 2018
Theses 19-20: God and the Unworthy Theologian
Sep 21, 2018
Divorce Never Decreed
Sep 19, 2018
Jesus Opens Us
Sep 19, 2018
Finding God in the Midst of a Hurricane
Sep 18, 2018
The Law According to Jordan Peterson
Sep 18, 2018
Theses 16-18: Adding Sin to Sin
Sep 14, 2018
The Habits of Grace
Sep 12, 2018
The Unfair Judge
Sep 12, 2018
The Difference Between Belief and Ideology
Sep 11, 2018
Thank God for Evolution
Sep 05, 2018
Learning the Cycle of Gospel Proclamation
Sep 04, 2018
We Get to Go Home Justified
Sep 03, 2018
Theses 11 -12: Shameless
Aug 31, 2018
The Imperfections of our Longings
Aug 31, 2018
Who Did Jesus Marry?
Aug 31, 2018
The Black Sheep
Aug 28, 2018
Theses 7-8: Let Your Works be Damnable
Aug 23, 2018
Jesus’ Syrophoenician Dog
Aug 23, 2018
Smashing Babies and Scarred Hands
Aug 22, 2018
Biblical Inerrancy in a Postmodern World
Aug 21, 2018
What to Make of the Holy Spirit
Aug 20, 2018
Theses 5 and 6: The Deadly Sin in All of Us
Aug 17, 2018
Truth is Hard
Aug 15, 2018
A Look at True Proclamation of the Gospel
Aug 15, 2018
Daily Bread and Bread of Life
Aug 14, 2018
Can God Repent Us
Aug 13, 2018
Theses 3 & 4: The Inverted Way of Jesus
Aug 09, 2018
Seeking the Lost
Aug 09, 2018
The Red in Our Ledgers
Aug 09, 2018
Theses 1 & 2: The Truth that the Law is Good
Aug 07, 2018
Justified Apart from Our Free Will
Aug 07, 2018
You Can't Work for Peace
Aug 06, 2018
Who are You to Walk the Walk
Aug 02, 2018
When Church is Exhausting, You're Doing it Wrong
Aug 01, 2018
Set Free to Forgive and Love
Aug 01, 2018
What Writer's Block Tells Us About the Kingdom of God
Jul 31, 2018
Luther's Anxiety of the Heart and Today's Despair
Jul 27, 2018
Why Church is For You
Jul 25, 2018
A Bitter Parable
Jul 23, 2018
The Truth about Loving Our God
Jul 23, 2018
Is James Preaching the Social Gospel?
Jul 23, 2018
Confessionalism and Why It's Important
Jul 20, 2018
Worth Your Meditation
Jul 19, 2018
The Gift is for those Who Don't Deserve It
Jul 18, 2018
Why We Should Question Christianity
Jul 12, 2018
What Every Christian Should Know about the End Times
Jul 12, 2018
So Many Religions
Jul 12, 2018
Read it for the Sword Stroke
Jul 09, 2018
It's Not, "What Would Jesus Do," but "Who Would Jesus Love"
Jul 09, 2018
How to Measure the True Christian
Jul 09, 2018
On the Weekly Road to Emmaus
Jul 09, 2018
Put it to a Vote: The Importance of the First Council of Nicea
Jul 02, 2018
Your Totem Defines Your Reality
Jul 02, 2018
Mordor and Evangelism, Part II
Jul 02, 2018
Be Humble, or Be Humbled
Jul 02, 2018
The Church of Polytheists
Jul 01, 2018