This is an excerpt from this year’s 1517 Advent Devotional.
11/27/25
Thanksgiving, then, is not just about plenty. It is about redemption.
11/26/25
Why is it truly meet right and salutary that we should at all times and all places give thanks to God.
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07/07/15
In front of us, in the past, is the hill upon which God has already defeated every foe we might face. On that bloody beam the heel of Christ crushed the head of the lying serpent.
06/30/15
The more law-centered a church becomes, the more it and the world become kissing cousins.
06/23/15
You may not believe it; you may even scoff at the claim, but here’s the truth: God hears your roar of pain on the other side of your silence. He counts every tear you let escape, or refuse to let go, from the ocean of anguish inside you.
06/18/15
His face was gaunt and his eyes had a haunted look to them as he strode into the office. He resembled a man beaten down, a wreck of an individual who looked disheveled and worn out.
06/12/15
No wonder that when young people grow up in a law-saturated, grace-dry church, they leave the faith by droves for all they’ve heard their whole life is a life they can never live up to.
06/12/15
Job’s friend Zophar had it up to here! He was done hearing Job defend himself in the midst of his suffering. Surely, Job must have done SOMETHING to bring all this calamity upon himself.
06/09/15
His glory is made known precisely in the cross, His strength in weakness, His wisdom in folly, His exaltation in humiliation.
06/02/15
The soles of the holy feet of God traverse the soil of the holy land of promise.
05/22/15
The kind of peace Jesus points to can't be achieved with words.
05/15/15
For the less we tell these stories of sin, the more it seems we are ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for the salvation of bad people.
05/13/15
What about the question, “Are you a Christian?” Does this one belong to that second category, where we must explore our hearts, test our actions, focus inside ourselves to get to the right answer?
05/12/15
Asking whether one's beliefs are the right ones is terrifying.
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