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.

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Scott Davis
Scott Davis
08/07/18

Jesus Gives Participation Trophies

We’re all familiar with the “outrage” in our culture about the trend in youth sports to award “participation trophies.”
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
08/06/18

Marriage Is Settling for the Okayest Spouse

Marriage is the ideal school in which to learn that we are not the center of the universe. We’re not created to live for ourselves. We find our true humanity only when we live for other people.
Gretchen Ronnevik
Gretchen Ronnevik
08/06/18

Carseats, Gluten, and Opinionated Bloggers

Never has the law fallen so hard on me as in motherhood. Never before was I more aware that my best wasn’t good enough.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
08/02/18

When God Disappoints

In the tiny Bible-belt town where I grew up, tragedy brought people together.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
07/31/18

No, Kids, You Can't Be Anything You Want to Be

Rather than telling our children, “You can be anything you want to be,” let’s tell them, “Be the best possible servant you can be.”
Mariah Coward
Mariah Coward
07/31/18

Breaking The “Righteous” Meter

In the first few years after God saved me I saw sin as this unfortunate parasite that was slowly sucking the life out of me.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
07/26/18

Justification Is Simple

The Gospel is simple to confess. That is, we are justified by faith alone, through Christ alone, without the works of the Law.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
07/23/18

Grace Has No Expiration Date

I, like you probably, have an uncontrollable aversion to any food product that is past its expiration date.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
07/22/18

The Birth of Childhood: How Jesus Revolutionized Our Understanding of Children

Jesus comes to pop our bubbles of pride, implode our towers of vanity, expose our arrogant adulting ways, and brings us down, down, down. Down to his level, which is the level of crucifixion.
Kelsi Klembara
Kelsi Klembara
07/19/18

Ideology, Theology, and Women Without Tattoos

You may have seen the uproar from a recent blog post suggesting that virgins who forego college, learn to cook big meals and abstain from tattoos make more desirable wives.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
07/18/18

The Kind of Grace Named Jesus

Our complaints about God's grace always sound the same: "It was good to see him in church with his son this morning.
Bonnie Petroschuk
Bonnie Petroschuk
07/17/18

Jedi, George Beverly Shea and Good Works

I don’t know if you’re like me or not, but ideas can kick around in my head in a big jumble for awhile and then, all of a sudden, something random makes all of the pieces come together.
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