Let us put repentance’s necessity back in its place, as the starting point for our gospeling. People will be saved, both those rejecting Jesus and those with a flawed hope in him. They will be freed from “whatever that means.”...

Even though the believer is promised that God is sovereignly overseeing each day of life with Christ, in its details, the appearance of these daily comfort criminals leads him to ask, “Uh God, you’re paying attention, right?” The answer God gives in the Bible may seem like there is a disconnect between reality and his understand-ing of what exactly comfort is. Nevert...

If Jesus were a superhero, one of his titles would rightly be The Abominator. The gospel begins with this horrible truth that all of us are so fully and truly abominations before the Lord that we have no hope of ever finding even the possibility of peace with God. Yet, God who justly hates us in our abominations has also chosen to love us in them! He sent Jesus to become t...

We who have Jesus have a shame-free hope, one that is both the right quality and quantity that secures our true purpose-in-life. Let us take the message of this sure hope back to our community!...

Surely the coronavirus is a crown of judgment. Yet until Jesus returns it is a crown that warns people to flee to Jesus to escape the coming judgment from which there is no hope of escape. Let us recommit ourselves proclaiming this good news echoed in this crown of judgment....