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Test the Spirits Feb 09, 2022

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The language of faith speaks promise and persecution, hope and trial, victory and pain. The language of the world may well speak the former, but rarely the latter.

Remembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer Feb 04, 2022

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An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.

Victims & Villains Feb 03, 2022

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The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.

Rest Doesn't Come Cheap Feb 03, 2022

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Rest doesn’t come cheap. Perhaps there’s no scarcer commodity in our time. Plenty sell it, but there’s no warranty, and it seldom lasts.

The Longing Road Feb 01, 2022

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When we read a good story, we sojourn with the characters and authors upon the trail of longing. Such is the pilgrim’s path.

No Going Back Feb 01, 2022

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The sword of the spirit in Holy Scripture does indeed show us our sin, but thanks be to God, it also shows us our Savior.

God's Mercy Never Dries Up Jan 27, 2022

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Our hope is God's mercy. It's like a well that never dries up. His mercies were there before he created us. They are present for us today.

Jesus' Transfiguration and Disfiguration Jan 24, 2022

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If we think God’s power, love and beauty are reserved merely for the glories of Transfiguration, then we have not understood the Father; we have not understood divine revelation.

Our Weekly Epiphany: Boring? Jan 20, 2022

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Here, robed in Word and Sacrament, is your King, infant though He be, come out of eternity into time to bring you out of time and into eternity.

Peace for Simeon, and Us Jan 15, 2022

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Our children are not our own, but even more, our children are born in need. They are sinful, from conception and from birth.