Anderson encourages us to meditate upon the ways that Christ truly is the end of our exploring.

 What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?

A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope 

Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.

When I came to view my own difficulties through the lens of Lewis’ work, I realized that I was not so much rebelling against God as longing for him.

How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry? 

The legacy of Jonah is troubled with most remembering him not for what he said but for what he did: run away.

God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.

Of all the Inklings, Williams was certainly the most enigmatic. His mind and body were always moving.

Luther actually expected the Catechism to be taught in the home

God knows that when we face insurmountable odds in our moments of weakness, we are more likely to turn to him in trust and reliance.

If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.

Even at Lewis’ graveside, Havard was a faithful friend, and a friend full of faith in Christ, confessing his hope in the resurrection.

The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.

This week, we’ll take a closer look at what it means to have a God who remembers us. Today, 1517 Scholar in Residence Chad Bird first introduces the Old Testament meaning behind the word and the Hebrew way of remembering.

Remembering is not recalling, its reflexing. It’s not meditating on things past and gone, but mediating into the present the truths learned in the past.

When God remembers his covenant with Noah and causes the flood to subside, he also chooses to forget.

Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.

Barfield taught Lewis the importance of balancing both reason and the imagination, both the rational and creative sides of the mind, something which was deeply influential in Lewis’s later apologetic, imaginative, popular, and scholarly writings.

This communion is like a hospital for wounded souls, a place where people can be brutally honest, emotionally naked, and receive fellowship from their brothers and sisters in Christ.

The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.

The only place to begin a discussion of human/creaturely identity is with our relationship to the God whose breath filled dust, brought us to life, sustains us and gives us a hopeful future.  

What parents like me need is the same thing every parent needs: the gospel.

A pastor is sent to proclaim the unconditional grace of God, reminding us again and again that it is our Heavenly Father who reaches out to us in love through his Christ-won forgiveness, and not the other way around.

God’s published will offers us anchorage, the anchorage of Jesus Christ, in the midst of chaos, reminding us that there is a greater purpose to our lives than the pursuit of worldly success or fleeting pleasures.