Devotions and Articles
Quick question: What’s one food you ate today?... Have you ever ridden a roller coaster or a really crazy ride at the fair?... It’s your night to do the dishes. But just before dinner, a friend calls to invite you over.... Paige wanted to be good. She really did.... Grandma and her grandson Jared spent the afternoon baking cookies together.... Imagine getting your math test back and it’s covered in red marks... What good is a flashlight with no batteries?... “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18 English Standard Version). How do gates “prevail”? After all, gates are not offensive. They aren’t weapons of war. If anything, gates only restrict people from breaking in or getting out. Preventative forces? Yet what happens when Peter confesses to Jesus, “You are the Christ, October is the time for us to recall how God worked through Martin Luther to restore the truth and beauty of the gospel at a time when it had become obscured and hidden. Perhaps what we remember most is summarized in those four great alones of the Reformation: sola gratia (by grace alone); sola Scriptura
