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5 mins read|06/27/24Justification is famously called the article upon which the church stands or falls. It is the article upon which The Lutheran Reformation stood boldly and confessed the Scriptural truth that we are made right before God by grace through faith on account of Christ alone.
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18 mins read|08/26/22There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
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13 mins read|01/27/22You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.
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18 mins read|09/30/21Grace does not emancipate us from any requirement of obedience. Rather, grace allows Jesus to be obedient on our behalf that the righteous demands of the law can be fulfilled.
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29 mins read|12/18/20The way through loneliness will lie in the blessing of solitude and the care of God.
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11 mins read|11/18/20God is coloring over your sin and making you fragrant; he is making you righteous in his sight. The old is gone, forever covered over by this new work.
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7 mins read|11/04/20As we face our own struggles and successes, let us pray that we may be humble. Let us be grateful for whatever God has provided and not become arrogant in what we have or what we've lost.
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16 mins read|08/03/20Miracles, for all their wonder and encouragement, rely on the dazzling of our senses to work. Because miracle-faith produces sensory-faith, it is of a poor quality.
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7 mins read|05/04/20How we feel is so often conditioned upon what we are experiencing. Faith grabs hold of something outside our experience, something objective and true that is not changed by circumstance.
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7 mins read|03/30/20We must put away a whitewashed Christianity that says that God simply forgives because He is nice, kind, loving, gentle, etc. That is not how forgiveness works.
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11 mins read|12/30/19Into the suffocating prison of sorrow, God sends his Breath, his Holy Spirit to help us. We may suffer, but we will not be alone.
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28 mins read|06/14/19Shame is shameful. That may seem obvious but ponder this observation from the authors of Scenes of Shame: “Shame, indeed, covers shame itself—it is shameful to express shame.”
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