1517 Blogcast

The law is good and holy but so often when we are “shoulding” on one another, we actually are just going to end up “burning” each other’s fields.

The Holy Spirit is sent, not to talk about himself, but to point us to Jesus.

Pentecost reminds us of not only what happened on that day described in Acts 2 but what is happening every day: the Spirit of God working in and through God’s people, according to his word.

You and I have a God who pardons all our wrongdoing by taking all of them onto himself. He doesn’t zap us into oblivion at the first sign of rebellion.

Sin, death, and Satan may have had more than a puncher's chance to beat us, but when God stepped into the ring, they should have admitted defeat and thrown in the towel.

If the Risen Christ is ushering in a new kingdom and a new creation, then maybe we shouldn’t be surprised to see some earth-shaking and mind-blowing things taking place.

By his initiative alone, he remakes our hearts to love him and others unselfishly.

The whole point of Church is to be in a place that hands over the gifts and promises of Jesus Christ to dirty rotten sinners who are in desperate need of them.

In Christ, we live beneath an open heaven having the definitive proof in the cross of Christ that God is outrageously for us, not against us.

We confess the ascension of Christ every Sunday in the words of the both the Apostles’ and the Nicene Creed.