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16 mins read|07/18/22With Christ as the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, the future is secure already. It’s solid right now, even when the cords seem to be fraying.
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16 mins read|06/10/22The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
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9 mins read|11/30/21If Jesus is indeed the same yesterday, today, and forever, everything his enfleshment brings is already assured: life, salvation, and forgiveness.
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17 mins read|11/15/21Look the judge in the eye and pin your sin on Jesus, the divine judge’s son. Jesus knows you can’t do it, so he trades places with you and pits himself against God’s righteous demands.
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14 mins read|05/03/21Luther saw that God demands not that we become perfectly righteous like God but that we simply receive the gift of righteousness; a gift that actually makes us worthy.
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13 mins read|02/09/21"A Lutheran Toolkit" is available for purchase today from 1517 Publishing
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23 mins read|10/29/20The parable of the wedding banquet in Matthew hinges on whether a guy is wearing the right costume for the party.
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16 mins read|07/16/20In the quiet of your own uptown, where your own sins bear down on you and create a troubled conscience before the world, before others, and before God, your Lord reaches across the chasm of brokenness to take your hand.
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19 mins read|05/18/20Dangerous Bible stories show us a God who has no problem whatsoever using the muck and mire of our worst days to make his progress toward his good goal happen.
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11 mins read|11/22/18God’s gifts are received, and the faithful heart offers gratias, and thanks are given in return.
