Tag: Faith

Sunday's sermon explored why taking up your cross means more than inspiration — it means sacrifice, surrender, and the hard daily work of following Jesus.

If you've ever prayed the Lord's Prayer at a Catholic service and kept going past 'deliver us from evil,' you've stumbled into one of Christianity's oldest liturgical differences — the doxology.

Martin Luther gave ordinary Christians a gift in 1529 — a plain, pastoral explanation of what we actually pray when we say the Lord's Prayer. Petition by petition, here is what he taught.

Sanctification by the Spirit means faith itself comes from God — not from our own striving. A reflection on 2 Thessalonians 2:13 and what Luther understood that changed everything.

When Jesus eats with sinners in Matthew 9, the religious crowd complains. Sissy Gifford asked us to sit with that discomfort — and then turned it around.

Jesus declared 'I am the way, the truth, and the life' to confused disciples on the night of his arrest. What does that mean for us today?