Author: Keith Atkinson

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. You’ve heard the advice. It’s pretty much given in just about every rom-com movie that’s made: “Just follow

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. One of the distinguishing marks of our culture, and of a subculture we call American evangelicalism, is the

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. “How can this be?” That’s essentially the question that the scribes and Pharisees, Sadducees, really the whole crowd,

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. In 1662, Johann Olearius wrote a hymn to honor a teacher, dear in light: the teacher Jonathan Scol,

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. It had been a very long day for both Jesus and the disciples. Jesus spent that previous day

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. In cultures across history, century after century, millennia after millennia, meals have been a central part of celebrations.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. There’s an axiom that Lutheran scholars use when reading and studying the Scripture: even when a text doesn’t

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. In ancient Greek theater, actors often played more than one character — hence the still familiar mask of

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra was a Hall of Famer, three-time American League Most Valuable Player of

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. Most people trust their doctors, especially specialists, with their lives. Literally. Most of us have to, because we