On April 27th, the year of our Lord 2021, the young Vladimir Guerrero Jr. launched three baseballs into orbit, for his first three-homerun game of his career, at the age of 22. Two of those shots were lifted off of Pitcher Max Scherzer. But that wasn’t the first time the great Scherzer has been taken […]
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Baptism Now Saves You: Baptism as a Means of Grace
Introduction What if I told you that Baptism now saves you? How would you react? Would you call me a heretic? Would it make you nervous? This is the thought experiment I ran this week online. Of course as people act so often online, I was immediately accused of being everything from a Lutheran to […]
To Keep You From Falling
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. 16 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2 They will put you […]
How to Be Hated by the World (and Win the World)
18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A […]
Friends of Jesus
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants,[a] for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you […]