1517 Blogcast

The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.

If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.

I trust that because of the gospel, God will continue to mend what I, in my sin, continue to break.

Jesus does not put us on trial and make us pay for our own sin, but he, himself, is put on trial in our place.

The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.

Armed with great analogies, airtight logic, and razor sharp wit, Lewis keeps you spellbound from one chapter to another as you find yourself going “further up and further in.”

Darkness is not your only friend. Jesus loves you, and he will be with you.

God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.

God thus excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.