1517 Blogcast

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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.

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1517 Blogcast episodes:

04.23.2024
Sheep and Shepherds
In Israel today, it's still possible to witness the same scene the disciples saw 2000 years ago when the Bedouin shepherds bring their flocks home from various pastures at the end of the day.
04.22.2024
Resurrection Community
Fellowship is nothing if it is not ultimately fellowship with God.
04.19.2024
The Resurrection Message of Forgiveness
The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
04.17.2024
God’s Gift of Justification
The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
03.07.2024
Be the Church - Law or Gospel?
The Church isn't built or expanded by human efforts but by Christ himself, the chief cornerstone of our faith.
03.05.2024
The Lenten Road
There and back again is not just a hobbit story. It is the story of Good Friday and Easter. Jesus journeyed to the cross, through the grave, and rose from the dead on the third day.
03.04.2024
A Good Sermon
The church is called to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. Where is that message found? In every blade of grass, on every page of Scripture.
02.21.2024
For We Do Not Know What to Pray for As We Ought
Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
02.20.2024
Lent's Forty Days
The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
02.19.2024
Legalism - The Elephant in the Room
Legalism invites you to look and observe and see what Christ wants from you, to follow his example, and to do what Jesus would do. The gospel proclaims Jesus as your Savior and Mediator and therefore shus your eyes and...
02.15.2024
Keep a Song in Your Heart
He was exiled from his Father for a time so we would never have to be.
02.14.2024
Love in the Ashes
One day, either through the firestorms of life or the decay of time, our earthly love will end up in ashes.
02.13.2024
A History of Lent: Lent's Somber Complexion
We’ll find that the driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something
02.12.2024
The Same Face
At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
02.06.2024
For You and For All People: The Legacy of Rod Rosenbladt
This is what drove Rod’s theology—that the good news—that Jesus died for sins and rose for the justification of the sinner—is for you and for all people.
01.18.2024
The Word of Promise and the Family of God
The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.
01.16.2024
A Review of “Called into Questions” by Matthew Lee Anderson
Anderson encourages us to meditate upon the ways that Christ truly is the end of our exploring.
01.04.2024
A Sermon is Not a Ted Talk
What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
11.07.2023
A Pastor's Call
A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
11.03.2023
Absolved!
Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
10.06.2023
C.S. Lewis on Joy
When I came to view my own difficulties through the lens of Lewis’ work, I realized that I was not so much rebelling against God as longing for him.
10.05.2023
To Live is Christ
How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?
10.04.2023
Here's Your Sign
The legacy of Jonah is troubled with most remembering him not for what he said but for what he did: run away.
10.03.2023
Is Thine Eye Evil, Because I am Good?
God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
10.02.2023
Unsung Inklings: Charles Williams
Of all the Inklings, Williams was certainly the most enigmatic. His mind and body were always moving.
09.28.2023
The Small Catechism was not created for confirmation class
Luther actually expected the Catechism to be taught in the home
09.28.2023
God Demands The Impossible, And That’s Good
God knows that when we face insurmountable odds in our moments of weakness, we are more likely to turn to him in trust and reliance.
09.27.2023
Why Poetry Matters
If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
09.25.2023
Unsung Inklings: Robert E. Havard
Even at Lewis’ graveside, Havard was a faithful friend, and a friend full of faith in Christ, confessing his hope in the resurrection.
09.15.2023
The God Who Remembers: Mary
The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
09.14.2023
The God Who Remembers: The Action of Remembrance
This week, we’ll take a closer look at what it means to have a God who remembers us. Today, 1517 Scholar in Residence Chad Bird first introduces the Old Testament meaning behind the word and the Hebrew way of remembering.
09.13.2023
The God Who Remembers: Joseph
Remembering is not recalling, its reflexing. It’s not meditating on things past and gone, but mediating into the present the truths learned in the past.
09.12.2023
The God Who Remembers: Noah
When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.
09.08.2023
Lost in Christ
Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
09.07.2023
The Unsung Inklings: Owen Barfield
Barfield taught Lewis the importance of balancing both reason and the imagination, both the rational and creative sides of the mind, something which was deeply influential in Lewis’s later apologetic, imaginative, popular, and scholarly writings.
09.06.2023
Defeating the Goliath of Addiction
This communion is like a hospital for wounded souls, a place where people can be brutally honest, emotionally naked, and receive fellowship from their brothers and sisters in Christ.
08.31.2023
The Inner Ring
The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
07.28.2023
Becoming Human Again
The only place to begin a discussion of human/creaturely identity is with our relationship to the God whose breath filled dust, brought us to life, sustains us and gives us a hopeful future.
07.27.2023
The Word I Have Needed When My Son Has No Words
What parents like me need is the same thing every parent needs: the gospel.
07.26.2023
What Use is a Pastor?
A pastor is sent to proclaim the unconditional grace of God, reminding us again and again that it is our Heavenly Father who reaches out to us in love through his Christ-won forgiveness, and not the other way around.
07.20.2023
The Bible: God’s Anchorage
God’s published will offers us anchorage, the anchorage of Jesus Christ, in the midst of chaos, reminding us that there is a greater purpose to our lives than the pursuit of worldly success or fleeting pleasures.
07.19.2023
The Gospel for Aliens?
I do not see how the existence of aliens would impact the gospel's validity for us in any significant way.
07.17.2023
Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 2: Wittgenstein’s Resurrection Principle
If God doesn't actually, show up in real human history and translate himself into the one category we know and understand best—the category of humanity itself—then we are orphaned and alone in the universe.
06.29.2023
The Apologetics of Imagination
If we believe that ours is truly the greatest story ever told, then we must share that story in creative ways and allow it to change the desires of its hearers.
06.28.2023
Pastoral Presence Makes All the Difference
The point is this: Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
06.27.2023
Ice Baths for Lost Sheep
The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
06.22.2023
One Word
One word from one God says it all to our tired hearts.
06.21.2023
A Departure to Celebrate
Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
06.20.2023
Opening the Dead Hands of Faith
It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
06.13.2023
An Excerpt from What Can Really Know? by David Andersen
This is an excerpt from chapter 9 of What Can Really Know?: The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding by David Andersen (1517 Publishing, 2023).

What's 1517 Blogcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

1517 Blogcast episodes:

Sheep and Shepherds

Resurrection Community

The Resurrection Message of Forgiveness

God’s Gift of Justification

Be the Church - Law or Gospel?

The Lenten Road

A Good Sermon

For We Do Not Know What to Pray for As We Ought

Lent's Forty Days

Legalism - The Elephant in the Room

Keep a Song in Your Heart

Love in the Ashes

A History of Lent: Lent's Somber Complexion

The Same Face

For You and For All People: The Legacy of Rod Rosenbladt

The Word of Promise and the Family of God

A Review of “Called into Questions” by Matthew Lee Anderson

A Sermon is Not a Ted Talk

A Pastor's Call

Absolved!

C.S. Lewis on Joy

To Live is Christ

Here's Your Sign

Is Thine Eye Evil, Because I am Good?

Unsung Inklings: Charles Williams

The Small Catechism was not created for confirmation class

God Demands The Impossible, And That’s Good

Why Poetry Matters

Unsung Inklings: Robert E. Havard

The God Who Remembers: Mary

The God Who Remembers: The Action of Remembrance

The God Who Remembers: Joseph

The God Who Remembers: Noah

Lost in Christ

The Unsung Inklings: Owen Barfield

Defeating the Goliath of Addiction

The Inner Ring

Becoming Human Again

The Word I Have Needed When My Son Has No Words

What Use is a Pastor?

The Bible: God’s Anchorage

The Gospel for Aliens?

Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 2: Wittgenstein’s Resurrection Principle

The Apologetics of Imagination

Pastoral Presence Makes All the Difference

Ice Baths for Lost Sheep

One Word

A Departure to Celebrate

Opening the Dead Hands of Faith

An Excerpt from What Can Really Know? by David Andersen