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“Perfectly free, servant of all.”
When Jesus Speaks, Even Death Listens
"Grace is the destruction of the world’s antimonies"
In a World Without Stories, Miracles are Just Anomalies
Help Us: Prayers of Fleming Rutledge
The First Half of the Inheritance
The Holy Spirit is God who Makes Love Possible
In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit- Mother of us all
Crank-Calling Walter Brueggemann
Signs of the Earth's Sanctification
The Breath of the Risen Christ
The Ascension is Not about a Where; It’s about a When
To Live by Faith is to Live by Sight
The Logos Does Not Wait for Permission
Christ Calls Proclaimers Not Explainers
“Whether You Serve Like Judas or John”
"She Really Believes We Need Saving"
We're Either Waiting for Nothingness or We're Waiting for Jesus
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Protector of the Gospel
Preaching Under Diminished Strength
If You Believe He's Risen, Indeed You Better Be Celebrating Constant Communion
The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World
All Shall Be Saved…Because the Church has Painted It
When Pope Francis Gave Me Jesus
Part Two on the Pastor’s Table Podcast
The Little Word Which Contains the World
The Tomb Becomes Empty As The Temple Was Empty
Holy Week Conversations on Substack Live
He Comes to Rifle Satan’s Fold
Holy Week Conversation on Substack Live
Holy Week Conversations on Substack Live
Before He Dies, Let Us Remember: Jesus Loved Life
Holy Week Conversations on Substack Live
Jesus Unmasks the Satanic Marriage Between Religion Inc. and Empire
Holy Week Conversations on Substack Live
The Great and Final Litigation
"Only a Man Can Sit on an Ass"
A Work of the Three Person'd God
"Good Friday is Not the Dead Center of the Gospel"
Holy Week Conversations: Substack Live
What is the Gospel Meant to Do to Its Hearers?
"Sacrifice" Does Not Mean "To Kill Something"
"To believe in a God who does not intervene in our world is to live a life of functional atheism."
We are the Nard God’s Purchased at Great Cost
Cancer, Ascension, and the Nones
Blood, Sacrifice, and Redemption
The Incongruity of Such an Oblation
Thinking with Luther in the Land of the Fathers
If Decline Can Happen Here, It Can Happen Anywhere
Christ's Blood: It's about Life Not Death
"I want to hear God say, "I'm sorry."
Is the Cross a Penultimate Good?
Nothing Has Yet Happened Simply Because It has Passed
“Great God Almighty done parted the Red Sea one mo’ time!”
On the Doctrine of the Atonement
He Makes a Creature Capable of Making Him
"Having a fat God and having a skinny God are two completely different things."
What If Jesus HAD Made Bread from Stones?
The Temptation was for the Tempter
"He appears to each as is expedient for the beholder."
“The only alternative to the muzzle of a shotgun is the foot of the cross.”
"Thou Shalt Not Kidnap" vs. "Love Thy Enemy"
We are Free to No Longer be Keyboard Warriors
"The Church Preaches the Law Only as the Law Fulfilled in Jesus Christ"
"You should cancel some OnlyFans subscriptions and buy a Bible."
Hitmen and Midwives: Thesis #9
Hope Not Hortatory is Our Responsibility to the World
Forgiveness is a Political Matter
This Hope is No Bastard, Cheat, or Tease
"Somebody Has to Say Such Things!"
God Loves Being Our God-- Convey It
“Love Your Family First” Does Not Land a Cross on Your Back
If Jesus is Risen, Where is His Body?
“Amen” is Faith’s Biggest Word
Preachers: Do You Like Your People?
Outrage Porn, Glawspel, and God's One-Way Love
Preachers Too Can Announce, "Today This Scripture is Fulfilled in Your HEARING."
We Should Not Give to Our Politics the Passion They Seek
"I Have Seen the Voice of God"
Prophecy is Always in the Mode of Promise Not Prediction
Robert Capon's "The Mystery of Christ"
Proclaimers: Preach the Whole Bible
Jesus Makes the Best Wine for Drunk People to Drink
Grace is for Losers: On Robert Farrar Capon
He Wades in the Water to Hallow It
Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus's Death
On the Distinction Between Jesus' Baptism and Christian Baptism