1517 Blogcast

We are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us. 

Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.

Love is more than a feeling; love is the person and work of Jesus Christ incarnate, crucified, risen, ascended, and reigning.

The words exchanged from one believer to another count as preaching, as long as Christ for you is the punchline.

Forty days after giving birth, Mary, along with her husband Joseph, presented their firstborn Son at the temple and "bought" him back with a sacrifice of two small birds. This is known as the "Presentation of Our Lord."

Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.

He gives us the power and authority to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to burdened sinners who entrust us with their pain, guilt, and defeat.

The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.

Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.

The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.