1517 Blogcast

Though envy whispers to us that peace can only be found by “keeping up,” Jesus whispers to us a better word: “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest."

When you walk into church on Sunday, you may not notice, but there are wounded soldiers sitting in every single pew.

If Jesus is better than Moses, then everything changes. If Jesus is better than Moses, then the ultimate becomes the penultimate.

Jesus lives to intercede. So we needn’t bring him our feigned righteousness or our faux rehabilitation.

Repentance means being cut down by the law’s declaration of judgment. It’s not an activity we do to prepare for grace, but a point of despair worked by God himself.

If we want to see evidence of our Father’s answer to the Fifth Petition, we need only to look at the cross and the empty tomb.

Our ears are opened by the Spirit through the word. Then, faith in Christ is present in us.

In Defense of Christian Ritual from 1517 Publishing is now available for purchase.

There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.

It’s not the disciples’ faith that invented the resurrection but the resurrection that gave birth to the disciples’ faith.