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11 mins read|08/14/20Saying the words of the prayer together meant that if my voice became too weak or shaky, other voices would be around to support and continue the message.
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11 mins read|07/31/20Your prayers are not what make you acceptable in his sight. You have already been made acceptable through the blood of Christ.
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9 mins read|07/27/20These words not only rescue and defend; they also attack.
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13 mins read|07/21/20It is one thing to pray against death’s slow and aggressive assault on God’s creation. It is another to trust in the one who has conquered the grave.
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7 mins read|06/30/20When we are hurt, we cry out to God. But sometimes when the hurt gets really intense, our lament turns to complaint. Not only is this normal, but almost every lament in scripture contains a complaint.
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8 mins read|06/16/20We already know how the war will conclude. Jesus wins.
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17 mins read|06/04/20God doesn’t permit me to write you off regardless of who you are or what you may have done. Nor does he allow you to dismiss me because I might not fit your image of a vessel of God’s mercy.
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7 mins read|05/07/20We all live with the knowledge of good and evil, but lack the power or ability to affect either one. We can judge good and evil but we cannot control them.
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16 mins read|04/09/20So let’s go to dark Gethsemane. For there we see that even in his greatest moment of weakness, Jesus is our only source of strength. He drinks the cup of wrath so we can drink the cup of grace.
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5 mins read|04/01/20The throne of grace is always available to us. For the Christian, it isn’t and never will be a throne of judgment. All of the judgment for all of our sin was laid upon our perfect Savior.
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13 mins read|03/23/20When Luther's barber, Peter Beskendorf, asked him how to pray, Luther wrote him an open letter that has become a classic expression of the "when, how, and what" of prayer. It is as instructive today as when it was first penned it in 1535.
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11 mins read|03/05/20When we pray, “Thy will be done,” we are praying a cosmic, grand and mighty prayer.
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