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5 mins read|10/04/22This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
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12 mins read|12/21/21Isaiah speaks to our time. He speaks to our rejoicing now and an anticipated joy-filled future. Christ’s coming, Christmas, brings them both.
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9 mins read|12/24/20We’ve hung on every whisper of hope that this way of life would end and a new one would rise to take its place.
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9 mins read|10/16/20Our freedom as Christians is not a form of independence. Our freedom in Christ comes from our dependence on him.
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5 mins read|04/08/20The following is an excerpt from “The Sinner/Saint Lenten Devotional” written by Kyle G. Jones and Kathy (Strauch) Morales (1517 Publishing, 2019).
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13 mins read|03/19/20This petition is proof that the Christian life is not a practice in perfectionism. Rather, it is a life of dying and rising, lived under the cross of Christ, in the continual forgiveness of our sins.
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11 mins read|02/13/20This article begins an eight-part series inspired by the Lenten themes of catechesis, prayer, and repentance found in the Lord’s Prayer as Luther taught it in his Small Catechism.
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12 mins read|12/20/19Should we really be surprised that it would happen this way, that the servant would suffer for our salvation and die for our forgiveness?
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13 mins read|09/05/19He calls us to suffer as Christ suffered. That is, we are to suffer in service to our neighbor even if they caused the injustice.
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6 mins read|04/05/19Worship not only starts with God; it also returns to Him through the filter of the cross. Jesus did not enter a cosmic retirement after his ascension.
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5 mins read|03/06/19Our sin marked Christ. Jesus was marked with the scars of nails and a spear for us. His hands, feet, and side are marked with scars displaying the cost of our redemption.
