Psalm 1 When the psalmist wrote our psalm for this morning, He was speaking of Christ. He was describing the holy, perfect, and pure Son...

Romans 15:1-13 “To whom much is given, much is required.” Jesus tells us this in Luke chapter 12, and it’s a principle that has numerous...

Joel 3 and Romans 12:14-13:14 There’s a wonderful bit of tension between our Old Testament readings and our New Testament readings today....

Joel 2:18-32 In Joel chapter 1, maybe a hundred years before it happens, the prophet foretells of the destruction that Israel is going to...

Romans 9:18-33 Reformed (Calvinist) theologians often use Romans 9 as one of their key proof texts for the doctrine known as “double”...

Romans 9:1-19 So far, in his letter to the Romans, Paul has been making the case that the righteousness we need in order to be justified...

Mark 8:27-9:1 In St. Matthew’s gospel, Peter’s confession leads Jesus to declare how the Church is built—“upon this rock.” The rock, of...

Romans 7:21-8:17 Luther, in his explanation to the third article of the Creed describes the work of the Holy Spirit in these terms: the...

Romans 7:1-20 Luther began his ninety-five theses with this statement: “When our Lord and master Jesus Christ said, “Repent!” he willed...

Romans 4 When scoffers try to mock our faith, they generally do so by pointing out how ridiculous it all sounds. “Oh, right,” they say....

Romans 3:19-31 Imagine that you’re a teenager and your father leaves you in charge of your younger siblings for the night. You decide you...

Romans 3:1-18 When it comes to the various theological assertions people make, I have a theory that I like to call the Common Knowledge...

Romans 2:17-29 There’s a great scene from an episode of “Seinfeld” where Jerry goes to get a rental car but is told they don’t have the...

Romans 2:1-16 Back in the 80s and 90s, it was a somewhat regular occurrence for a famous televangelist to get caught engaging in...

Matthew 2:1-12 Who were these mysterious wise men who followed Christ’s star from a distant land all the way to a small house in the...

Luke 3:1-20 John the Baptist had been sent by God to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah—making him the pinnacle of the Old...

Luke 2:41-52 Luke is the only gospel which gives us any information about Jesus’ life between his birth and the beginning of his public...

Luke 2:22-40 Luke tells us that Simeon was waiting for the consolation of Israel. That’s a rather loaded phrase that Luke is using. ...

John 20:24-29 One of the reasons our world is such a mess today is because we have a bad habit of letting our afflictions tell us how to...

Isaiah 40:18-41:10 A number of years ago, I bought my dad a book called “War Letters.” It was a collection of letters that American...