Kleinig continually directs the reader's attention to Christ and his gifts.

Lent isn't simply a season. It's the Christian life in microcosm.

Jesus satisfies, fills, and saves because he is the Son of God, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns forever.

In episode THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN, Mike, Jason, and Wade discuss the sacraments and the challenged faced in our day in truly appreciating them (with mind, heart, and spirit) for all that they are and do.

In the liturgy, Christ is present, self-giving, and ever-addressing his people.

The liturgy ensures that the gospel is never something inward, merely a thought or sentiment of the believer.

Reign in Blood. In this episode of Banned Books, we discuss the Lord’s Supper while reading The Last Supper: The Testament of Jesus by Reinhard Schwarz. We discuss why the distinction between a covenant and a testament is of utmost importance for exegesis, sacramental theology, and Christian life, why promise and gift are central to Luther’s understanding of the sacrament, and how rejecting the sacrament leads to a denial of Christ.

The gospel is his weapon that beats back the darkness — “I AM the Resurrection and the Life. Bow your head, bend the knee when I walk by.”

Symbols throw together a physical artifact we can see, hear, touch, taste, and/or smell, with a truth beyond the tangible.

On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss the crowds seeking Jesus in John 6 for bread.

Ramble Tamble. In this episode, we do a pastor’s table talk that centers on inculcating a deeper appreciation for heavenly mystery and earthly reality: prayer at home, worship on vacation, the connection of the land to God’s judgment and salvation of his people, the early church’s exegesis, Genesis snd Revelation, and Logos theology that binds the Trinity and Creeds.

This week, when you go to church, take a moment to reflect that you are being summoned by a loving Father, hands full of gifts he wants to give.