This is an excerpt from Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation by Amy Mantravadi (1517 Publishing, 2024), pgs. 24-27
Thanksgiving is never out of place for the Christian.
Christ is the beating heart of Christian faith and its only object.

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What is it about the cross and its embrace of shame that informs and inspires Christians, who, for various reasons, might find themselves inscribed by shame, to no longer be shameful?
In his resurrection, God says "Yes" to Christ, and all those in him.
This is the first installment in our series entitled, God and Nature, which explores the relationship between our Creator and nature: how God uses nature, how we are meant to view nature, and how God chooses to reveal (or hide) himself in nature.
God can never really be said to be ignoring us, even if our experience with God at any given moment is that he is.
This week, when you go to church, take a moment to reflect that you are being summoned by a loving Father, hands full of gifts he wants to give.
To embrace our creatureliness is to affirm the truth that we were created to worship.
Moltmann is gone now, but his theology will continue to provoke and provide.
God does not give us an undebatable answer to suffering. Instead, God suffers, too.
Christ’s birth, he shows us, is entangled with human pride and sin, which is overcome by God’s love.
A brief summary of Augustin'e view of friendship is followed by some quotes by Augustine
Scent plays an important role in our memories and the story of Scripture
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