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The Altar Call That Never Took

Jul 9, 2026

Why the most earnest ones always had it worst—and where assurance is finally allowed to live.

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The Word Was a Person

Jul 8, 2026

God created by speaking — not by struggle or violence like the pagan gods — and the Word He spoke turns out to be a Person: the One through whom all things were made

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But God

Jul 5, 2026

The bleakest diagnosis in Scripture, interrupted by the two most important words Paul ever wrote

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Why Is the Lutheran Church So Divided?

Jul 3, 2026

The real fault line isn't the culture-war list. It's whether a confession still binds.

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Christ at Verse One

Jul 1, 2026

What kind of book is Genesis? The seedbed of the whole Bible — and, if you read with risen eyes, Christ is in it from the very first verse

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A Prayer to See

Jun 28, 2026

Paul's first prayer for the Ephesians asks not for new blessings, but for eyes to see the ones they already have

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We Had Hoped

Jun 24, 2026

Two disciples on the Emmaus road had every fact — even the empty tomb — and still could not see Christ, until the risen Lord opened the Scriptures and broke the bread

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He Chose You First

Jun 21, 2026

Paul opens Ephesians with the longest sentence in the Bible — twelve verses of pure gift, written so you would remember

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Reading the Old Testament with Lutheran Eyes

Jun 17, 2026

A new series begins — The Things Concerning Himself — reading the Old Testament the way Luther read it: as a book that is, from its very first verse, about Christ

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A Letter for Ordinary Times

Jun 13, 2026

Paul, his prison, and a letter written for the long, unspectacular life of the Church

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