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Christian hope is not a pie-in-the-sky optimism in the face of lousy circumstances. Christian hope is assurance in the now for the not yet. -CJ Armstrong 1517.org/articles/epist…

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God will not be boxed in by our worries and He will not let our self-understanding be limited to our needs. Jesus knows there is more to God and more to us than what we are worried about.-David Schmitt 1517.org/articles/gospe…

Preaching comprises a whole panoply of hard-won skills. We shortcut this process to our peril.-Ryan Tinetti 1517.org/articles/a.i.-…

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It is true that the congregation may not want to think about the God Jeremiah proclaims, but we need to hear this true voice in the marketplace of ideas in the world today. -Bob Sundquist 1517.org/articles/old-t…

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A life of faith is lived by “fixing our eyes on” the object of faith, even Jesus, the one dead and raised.-CJ Armstrong 1517.org/articles/epist…

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Jesus is preparing us for a baptism by fire that will shatter our expectations.-David Schmitt 1517.org/articles/gospe…

Who would have expected that God is a God of surprises?-Robert Kolb 1517.org/articles/that-…

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The ways of the world lead to death but the way of the Lord is life eternal in His presence.-Bob Sundquist 1517.org/articles/old-t…

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Sinai is law. Zion is gospel. Which one will save your hearer? Which one is the author’s audience being directed to? Which one are you directing your hearers to?-CJ Armstrong 1517.org/articles/epist…

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He is not a teacher who answers all sorts of speculative questions. He is your Savior, who answers the one question which matters the most for you: “How will you be saved?”-David Schmitt 1517.org/articles/gospe…

All proper sermons will bring auditors spatially from the spaces and things posited in their imagination to a living encounter with Christ at the altar.-John Bombaro 1517.org/articles/spati…

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