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12 mins read|12/09/19James takes the Jewish expectation and thoroughly baptizes it in the light of the fact of the Incarnation. Messiah has come.
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16 mins read|11/25/19For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
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25 mins read|11/18/19The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
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16 mins read|11/11/19The Gospel outpaces all would-be and eventually fleeting identity-makers and brings in the truth of a renewed-in-Christ humanity.
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25 mins read|10/28/19The lavish nature of God’s love is indicated by the fact that He, as Father, is the author of our being adopted as sons and daughters through Holy Baptism.
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19 mins read|09/23/19[Recall] the testimony of the martyrs. Hear the good news of St. Michael: Christ has conquered by His blood, and the Kingdom of God and His will shall, in fact, be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
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17 mins read|09/04/19Only true doctrine teaches people how to love God and others. Love is the best test for our theology, for true love and true doctrine go together.
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14 mins read|07/28/19Indeed, baptism is life because resurrection is life. Nothing short of regeneration—renewal of life—is accomplished by God through sheer grace because of Christ Jesus.
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14 mins read|07/22/19Matters of integrity and relationship are compromised when pastors preach pre-packed sermon series.
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13 mins read|07/22/19Believers are reminded—and the preacher is to remind them—baptism marks the forgiveness of sins, the end of legal demands, justification and regeneration, and the ultimate triumph over rulers and powers.
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13 mins read|07/15/19Baptized believers are in Christ and of Christ. Once they were alienated from and hostile to God, now they have been reconciled through the work of Christ. This forgiveness is not unconditional. Christ is the condition and, indeed, He fulfills all the conditions.
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10 mins read|07/08/19The Father, then, “has qualified you” through the work of Christ to share in the family inheritance. This inheritance is the Family of God itself and the family of the triune God Himself.
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