The sinful nature loves self, and pride is its native tongue.
This article is part of Stephen Paulson’s series on the Psalms.
John inspired me to see each sermon as an apologetic opportunity.

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Has the modern world taken too strong a dose of the gospel as its inheritance from the Reformation?
The kingdom of Christ consists in finding all our praise and boast in grace. Other works should be free, not to be urged, nor should we wish by them to become Christians, but condescend with them to our neighbor.
This tale of two professors has a common theme, plot, and denouement - the good news of the one true story, Jesus Christ crucified for you.
Paul knew, and so do we: the law doesn’t change hearts or heal the world. More demands won’t do the trick.
The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.
Any good work we perform among you; any doctrine we write upon your heart – that is God’s own work.
Advent is not a call to prepare to engage in a transaction with God.
St John of the Cross' feast day on December 14 commemorates the day of his death in 1591, at the height of the Catholic renewal movement that followed the Reformation.
Christ urges us to love our neighbor as He loved us, forgiving all of their sins - giving them the absolving, shirt-pulling, embrace that we would also want.
It wasn’t a perfect image, but it was still there, even in its cartoonish movie magic distortion. It was an element of the Gospel right there in front of me.
Jesus does not seek out Peter to condemn, but to restore his precious lost sheep, His dearly loved prodigal son.
In a year in which every day seems to blur together, Luther's orders of daily prayer help order our daily lives.