1517 Blogcast

The Bible is a book for the desperate. That is its target audience. Recognizing our desperation readies us to hear the consolation that only God’s Word can offer.

The forgiveness of your sins and your reconciliation with God the Father courtesy of Christ’s cross and blood is gifted to you, for you.

We cannot scan any random passage of Scripture and automatically assume the words are unconditionally addressed to us. Often, very often, they are not.

The kingdom of God has a proper name, and his name is Jesus, Son of God, Son of Man.

Ash Wednesday, is meant to remind us we have a death problem. All living things made from the soil shall return to it.

Jesus Christ is our peace because he doesn't criticize us. He declares us freed from our perceptions to accept the truth about ourselves.

Jesus is coming again to renew all things. It may seem somewhat hidden right now, but make no mistake, hope abides.

This second word—the gospel—is not something more to be done, but something to be believed. Which is to say, it is received through faith.

The paradoxical Puritan doctrines of an inability to convert oneself and the command to work out one’s salvation with fear and trembling placed would-be converts like Mather in quite a bind.

Our prayer confesses that God’s abode is beyond us, yet ever so near for the prayer presupposes that we are being heard, even in our sighs and whispers.