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16 mins read|01/19/25More easily than we think, our failure to respect and fear, love and trust in God above all things, can eat away at our peace, our joy, our life itself.
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18 mins read|10/12/24Forgiveness is ours, Luther continually proclaimed, because Christ has put His claim on our sins and taken them as His own to the Cross and into His tomb.
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19 mins read|10/05/24This restoration to righteousness that results in our freedom for loving and supporting other people whom God places within our reach takes place, Luther believed, through Christ’s liberating victory over Satan.
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16 mins read|03/09/24That Jesus is risen from the dead means, now and forever, Satan is bound, and it is determined he has no right to try to have a say in our lives.
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16 mins read|09/23/23God is placing us in new situations. His unchanging and utterly reliable Word provides our only anchor.
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18 mins read|08/26/23Jesus purifies His own and ends their identification as unfit to appear in His presence or in front of other people as the person we identify as our true self.
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17 mins read|04/29/23But what does a preacher do regarding the doctrine of providence when God embarrasses Himself and us by not being present in the way we want Him to be with us?
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19 mins read|01/24/23This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023). Now available for purchase.
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15 mins read|04/16/22The gospel of Jesus’ coming out of death and the tomb alive so that we might be restored to our identity as God’s children establishes the most enduring reality there is.
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17 mins read|03/19/22Belonging to Christ means we have a place where we fit, a resting place where we are at peace because we know our Lord accepts us as His own.
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14 mins read|02/05/22Because Jesus has set us free, we enjoy a freedom of movement in His world, under His grace, that loosens our tongues to sing His praise.
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