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December 2020

December 09, 2020

What the Name “Jesus” Reveals

The very name of Jesus, which means "Yahweh Saves," is a creed, a confession of...

December 07, 2020

The Bible’s Super-Short & Always Useful Prayers

The Bible has many profound prayers that are extremely short--as few as three words--yet they...

December 04, 2020

Advent Teaches Us to Wait

Advent is a season that is all about waiting--for the Messiah, for His Second Coming,...

November 2020

November 04, 2020

Perspective on the Election

Chad Bird offers us some much-needed perspective in his post "God’s Not Worried About the...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

Reforming the Church around the Gospel

Reformation Day is about "re-forming" the Church; that is, to return to its "substantial form"...

October 05, 2020

In the Communist Bible Translation, Jesus Stones the Woman

In the new Chinese Communist translation of the Bible, Jesus kills the woman taken in...

September 2020

September 04, 2020

Recovering the Atonement

The doctrine of the atonement--that on the cross Christ bore our sins and endured the...

August 2020

August 13, 2020

The Problem with Coveting

How is it that "coveting" rates inclusion in the Ten Commandments? After all, it doesn't...

July 2020

July 27, 2020

COVID-19 as a Sign from God

A poll has found that 63% of religious Americans believe the COVID-19 epidemic is a...

July 20, 2020

Christ & Calamity (a free or nearly free book of pastoral care)

As we face sickness, death, economic disaster, uncertainty, fear, and every other kind of suffering,...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

The Ultimate Devotional Resource

A review of "The Treasury of Daily Prayer," the ultimate devotional resource. It includes a...

May 2020

May 18, 2020

Animals in the Afterlife

Will there be animals--particularly, our pets--in Heaven, or, to be more exact, in the Resurrection...

April 2020

April 21, 2020

Esolen Brings Back Poetry by Bringing Back Christian Poetry

The Christian author and cultural critic Anthony Esolen has written a remarkable new book entitled "The...

April 15, 2020

A Creedal Testimony from Less Than Five Years after Jesus’ Resurrection

Scholars have identified a creedal testimony to the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus that...

April 10, 2020

Holy Days for the Church in Exile

Just as today's Christians can't go to church and receive the sacraments, God's people during...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

What Is the Biblical Quality of “Hope”?

"So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three" (1 Cor 13:13). We hear a...

March 18, 2020

The Bible on Plagues & Pestilence

As we face the coronavirus, the Bible has much to say about plagues and pestilences....

March 10, 2020

“The Greatest Plague”

In his "Table Talk," Luther reflects on the spiritual and existential significance of plagues. He...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

Escaping the World vs. Escaping Yourself

This is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, a day and a season to reflect...

December 2019

December 27, 2019

Christianity in 2019

My list of religious developments, focusing on Christianity, that took place in 2019 and that...

December 20, 2019

Solving the Debt Problem by Declaring a Jubilee?

Some economists, policy-makers, and politicians are calling for the revival of the Biblical principle of...

September 2019

September 13, 2019

Veggie Tales Reboot, but with the Gospel This Time

Veggie Tales was a ground-breaker in Christian programming for children, telling Bible stories and lessons...

September 12, 2019

CPH at 150: The New Catechism + Explanations

Concordia Publishing House celebrated its 150th Anniversary yesterday. Though CPH now offers some 10,000 products,...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

A New Bible Translation (by Lutherans)

I received a review copy of a new Bible translation: the Evangelical Heritage...

June 2019

June 20, 2019

Lost in a Meaningless Universe

We Christians often speak of non-believers as "lost." That is no metaphor today. For all...

June 13, 2019

From the Lord’s Prayer to the Pope’s Prayer

A couple of years ago we blogged about how Pope Francis wanted to change the...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

The Women of Proverbs & the Bible’s Family Dramas

The estimable Peter Leithart has written a must-read piece in First Things entitled Heroic Domesticity. It begins...

May 14, 2019

Victories through Tools

Have you noticed that victories in the Old Testament are often won not with weapons...

May 13, 2019

The Christian Life: Trusting, Laboring, Suffering

The three "theological virtues" are faith, hope, and love (1 Corinthians 13:13). What is the...

April 2019

April 15, 2019

Our Presence in the Events of Holy Week

The events commemorated in Holy Week, which began yesterday, are not just ancient history. We...