Charlie Kirk’s murder is a reminder that Christians will be hated for what we believe, teach, and confess about this sinful world and because of the God who has died and risen to save it.
The Nicene Creed is the gospel distilled—a refined and concentrated byproduct of Scripture’s own witness to the grace and power of God in Jesus Christ.
Nothing good happens when you get ahead of God and take matters into your own hands.

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The truth is we’ve always mixed up the roles of penitent and priest.
This advent we will take a closer look at the four names given to Christ by the prophet Isaiah in Isaiah Chapter 9. For Christ is not only Immanuel, or God with us, but he is also Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. His rule is not what the Israelites of Isaiah's day, the Jews throughout Jesus' life, nor even we today, expect. He comes to us as a servant and as a child and yet more wonderful, mighty, everlasting, and princely than we could imagine.
It’s easy to slip into thinking about forgiveness solely in terms of our authority over it.
By basing our assurance on the promises of God, which we not only hope for in the future but live in now, the Christian can finally rest in the comfort that they are both saved and not responsible for their own salvation.
Before you object that what we need is change - not salvation - let me remind you that our shouts for change are evidence of our need for a savior.
We are meant to serve in love both our neighbor in need as well as the neighbor who doesn’t think they need us.
“I forgive you,” must be said and it must be said often in a marriage.
Biblically speaking, we won’t find much evidence for a preordained spouse.
Today’s advice for the anxious and worried would have likely horrified Luther.
“Each of us shares in this sin; the sin of self-justification and disbelief in God’s promises.”
This blog is a part of our Advent series on the hope we find in, through and given by Christ. Each week’s installment will look at hope from a different perspective with special emphasis on corresponding passages of Scripture.
While 500 years is certainly something to be celebrated, to always focus on the anniversary number could run the risk of forgetting the true meaning behind the reason we remember the Reformation as an important period in the history of the Christian church.