1517 Blogcast

The giver of life, the source of joy, stands weeping together with the human family as they grieve under the curse of sin.

With Jesus, troubles and sorrows, problems and worries, heartbreak and mourning are gathered up like left-over crumbs from a feast marking the celebration of victory over the enemy's forces.

We can not give our Heavenly Father anything that will make him love us more or less. He gives and we receive.

The reformers were compelled to confess the true faith and challenge corrupt practices—this is what the Augsburg Confession is about.

God invites you to confess the skeletons in your closet so that he might bury them in the grave for good.

The story of Juneteenth is one of living between proclamation and emancipation, and the story of the Christian faith is one of living in that same tension.

Christian hope means always hope in God and hope in Christ simultaneously without distinction.

The only one truly blessed of God, who in himself is God’s incarnate makarios, surrounds himself with a multitude of the accursed, the non-makarios.

We continue to run the race, knowing the victory has been won and given to us through Christ Jesus.

It is not her sacrifices that define Jane's faith, but her belief in the one who sacrificed for her.