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27 mins read|12/10/23The Magnificat invites us to enter into, consider, and embrace the worldview of a teenaged Jewish girl and her geriatric aunt: The one bearing the prophet Elijah which was to come and the other carrying within her womb the God whom she and her nation worshipped and feared.
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30 mins read|11/05/23John’s excitement invites his readers to lay hold of this above all else: The lavish love of God.
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14 mins read|05/13/23If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.
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15 mins read|11/19/22For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
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16 mins read|10/30/22Whatever else may be said about the Last Day it consists of these two inseparable things: Christ’s coming and His kingdom people being gathered to Him.
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20 mins read|10/23/22The phrase “works of the law” has an antithesis when it comes to righteousness—faith. What keeping the Law could not do, the gift of faith does.
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16 mins read|10/09/22The Word and the Spirit go together. The Spirit, the breath of God, illumines and makes alive through the Word of God; both written and external, that is, preached and sacramented.
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17 mins read|10/02/22Paul is talking about military-level allegiance here, the strongest kind of allegiance sworn to a king.
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14 mins read|09/25/22This ministry of the Gospel, this standing in the stead and by the command of our Lord Jesus Christ, is demanding business and is entirely unsuitable for the weak-willed or those who compromise with the zeitgeist of the day.
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25 mins read|09/11/22St. Paul extends to us the call to arms. In particular, there is one weapon which is effective against so elusive an enemy. The weapon is prayer.
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12 mins read|09/07/22The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
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13 mins read|08/27/22As the Spirit does His work, He produces new ways of living for individuals, households (like Philemon’s) and communities, that is, the Church.
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