The Cross

First of all, I want to apologize for the tardiness of this week’s post. This fall has been a recharging time for me. I have been reading “Christian Dogmatics” by Francis Pieper, the “Smalcald Articles”, the “Apology to the Augsburg...

Sermon from Matthew 16

In last week’s text, we read of Peter’s great confession that Jesus is “the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”  That passage, along with this week’s continuation in Matthew, represents a turning point in Jesus’ ministry and in his relationship with the disciples. ...

Some Assembly Required

As I was grilling the other night, I looked upon my grill and recounted the day I put it together… The directions weren’t incredibly clear and the pictures looked as though they were rubbings from the inside of an Egyptian tomb, so I was very deliberate in...

Not by choice but in Christ Jesus

“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he  ate.” Genesis 3:6. “And...

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