Christ: Our Past, Present, and Future
By Wade Johnston
11/05/24
8mins

Christ: Our Past, Present, and Future

You have real freedom through the gospel of Jesus Christ, a freedom that doesn’t rest on founders, votes, or power plays.
Two Kingdoms, Three Estates, One Christ
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
11/04/24

Two Kingdoms, Three Estates, One Christ

One Christ rules over all of it. He is the constant, the root that nourishes every estate and every vocation.
Reforming the Reformation
Aaron Boerst
Aaron Boerst
11/01/24

Reforming the Reformation

No matter how many times we hear this good news, it never stops being good news.

All Articles

Chad Bird
Chad Bird
12/12/19

Let This Little Nine-Year-Old Preach Round the World

If you're blocking Jesus, then for the love of God, get out of the way. Let Jesus show.
Bonnie Petroschuk
Bonnie Petroschuk
12/11/19

When the Great Shadow Departs

While we are promised that God will always be with us, we are also told of the benefits that can come to us even in our pain.
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
12/10/19

The God Who Won’t Repent

God will not repent. He will not repent of His promises. He will not change His mind regarding His selfless, self-sacrificing, inconceivable love for sinners.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
12/10/19

The Anti-Self-Help Prophet

In the wilderness, God reaches down to show us that the only life is in one place: where there is water.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
12/05/19

The Good News That We're Not Good Enough

Our actions, moral choices, appearance, definitions of family and friendship are all defined by how we see ourselves in relation to the question, "Am I good enough?"
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
12/04/19

Does Christmas Pass the “Smell Test” for Paganism?

There is no evidence whatsoever that Christmas was or is, by some outlandish stretch of the imagination, a pagan holiday, or a semi-pagan holiday, or that it doesn’t pass the “smell test” for paganism.
Robert Farrar Capon
Robert Farrar Capon
12/02/19

Faith Doesn't Paint Houses

I can only disbelieve you or believe you. If I disbelieve you, I go on being a miserable bore.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
11/30/19

The Thieving Christ

Come, Lord Jesus, and steal our navel-gazing worship, and replace it with love for our adversaries, ears to listen and mouths to shut up, and hearts brimming with compassion for all.
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
11/26/19

We All Sink Like Peter

We are still so much closer to Peter in our flaws than his virtues, and Christ is still our rescue.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
11/20/19

God's Humility For You

Here is truly illustrated the truth that no one comes to Christ except the Father draw him; and with what power, what delicious sweetness, the Father allures!
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
11/19/19

World's Strongest Man

God comes to fix what is broken by being broken himself. He abolishes death by dying. He subsumes sin by being made sin itself.
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
10/31/19

Haunted

The devil knows our name and labels us by our sin. The devil breathes out death as he names us for what we are, sinners.
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