1517 Blogcast

The promise here is that God is present with us in our troubles, issuing commands to save us before we ask. God does not ignore our suffering and cries.

When you are stripped down to nothing, desperate, lowly, you will again know what she knows: the crumbs are enough, Jesus is enough, for you.

We cannot love first. Therefore God comes, takes hold of the heart, and says: "Learn to know me."

Sometimes it’s important to go far away to learn of holy places back home.

God is often hidden in history, even as we make it now, but He is always manifest where He has promised to be.

Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.

You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!

For Luther, those who refuse Christ as a curse want their sin removed not in Christ but in themselves.

When we own up to our sin, our Father is not scandalized, and his response is not to reconsider his calling us.

Confession is not another ecclesiastical bludgeon but is instead a gift. There we can tell the truth about ourselves, knowing that Christ has only mercy for us in response.