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December 2023

December 25, 2023

A Christmas Miscellany, 2023 A.D.

God the Baby; the world Jesus was born into; and Christianity, paganism, and the gospel....

January 2023

January 24, 2023

Meditating on the Incarnation

Leland Ryken is one of the premier Christian literary scholars. Lately, he has been bringing back...

November 2022

November 17, 2022

Identity for the Christian

People today are obsessed with their identities. But the Bible explicitly says that the identity...

November 29, 2021

Luther on Advent

"He comes." That is what "advent" means. But there is more to it than that: ...

September 2021

September 21, 2021

Forgiveness vs. Reconciliation

Forgiveness is about an individual wronging another individual. Reconciliation is about restoring a relationship. We...

July 2021

July 08, 2021

Watch for Eucatastrophes

Two bloggers write about "eucatastrophe," "the sudden and unexpected occurrence of something deeply good." The...

December 2020

December 24, 2020

Eerie Christmas Songs

Christmas is mysterious. The notion that the transcendent God of the universe has been born...

July 2019

July 10, 2019

“Christ Is a God of Joy”

We talked about this Daily Luther Quote in our Bible class last Sunday: [When someone...

December 2018

December 03, 2018

Advent and the Problem of Evil

Fleming Rutledge reminds us that Advent is not primarily about the baby Jesus. Rather its...

May 2018

May 28, 2018

“The Anticipated Davidic Figure” in the Psalms

My son-in-law Adam Hensley, Old Testament Lecturer at Australian Lutheran College, has just published his book Covenant...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Another remarkable prophecy of Christ in the Old Testament (the study of which is a...

March 2016

March 17, 2016

An object lesson for St. Patrick’s Day

Today is St. Patrick's Day, a time to commemorate the former slave who escaped his...

August 2015

August 13, 2015

The Bread of Life

Pastor Douthwaite's sermon last Sunday was based on the reading from John 6, in which...

December 2014

December 25, 2014

The myth that Christ is a myth

The arguments are going around that Jesus Christ was little more than a mash-up of...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

What the Bible is all about

On Sunday we read the entire Passion narrative from Matthew 26-27. Read what our pastor...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

An evangelist to theologians

This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of a theologian I had never...

April 2013

April 09, 2013

God is present vs. God is present for you

I hope you had a happy Quasimodogeniti, the Second Sunday of Easter with perhaps the...

April 06, 2012

Good Friday

April 02, 2012

He made Himself nothing

What a sermon we had on Palm Sunday to introduce Holy Week! Pastor Douthwaite preached...

May 2010

May 17, 2010

Christology

We've been discussing the Christological dimensions of the Ascension, including the Lutheran view that not...

November 2009

November 05, 2009

That God died

I had assumed that yesterday's post about Crucifixion, in which I talked about how God...