Would you ever use the word  “beautiful” to describe a church, a ministry or a sermon? Isaiah makes clear that when a ministry is full of the gospel of Jesus Christ it really is something very beautiful. 

The good news is that death is the last enemy and has already been defeated by Jesus in his death and resurrection.

God's grace is better than anything else in the world.  It is a pure gift from God to sinners.  It is to be insisted upon and let loose in Christ's church, without hesitation, and to be enjoyed no matter what messiness such a good gift causes.

Jesus in his healing of the leper exposes Jewish distortions of the law as he also fulfills the law. But more importantly, he reveals who he is and his mission to save as does what the law was powerless to do.

Jesus Christ is a complete Savior, bringing us a comprehensive rescue from all the damage that our sin has done. 

 Jesus Christ graciously calls us not to be unbelieving but to believe in him so that we would have life in his name.

In contrast to the disobedience of Israel, Jesus is the one who prevailed in his probation keeping righteousness; he is called, he is proved, he is obedient. 

 God’s grace in Christ not only heals the rift between guilty individuals and our holy Creator. It also breaks down the walls (race, gender, culture, language, etc.) that divide us from one another.  

Mark 10:13-52 presents four ways by which one might seek to enter the kingdom. Jesus instructs us to enter the kingdom as a child and as a blind man, but not as the rich or powerful.

In the heart of his letter to the Galatians, Paul presents God’s glorious, gracious remedy to our alienation, guilt, and spiritual dehydration.

It has been said that fear and pride are the opposite sides of the same coin. 

 Reasons to put our faith in Jesus as Rescuer and descriptions of unbelief.

The world offers us a mirror to see ourselves in an ever-changing reflection of what it tells us. In the prologue of Job, God gives us a window to see a never-changing image of how God sees us.

Many Christians quite misunderstand our Lord’s teaching in Matthew 24 because they miss the parallel that our Lord drew between his future bodily return and the days of Noah. Indeed, missing the connection between Noah and Jesus has been the cornerstone of the entire “Left Behind” phenomenon and has been since the beginning of the modern “secret rapture” craze since 1972.

God’s grace, through the cross of Christ, unmasks us. The cross exposes our guilty secrets and the condemnation and lethal punishment that we deserve, leaving us nowhere to hide to preserve our “image.”  

Jesus assures his disciples on the verge of their worldwide ministry as he is about to depart of his constant presence with his people throughout this age.

There is a danger in American society of being burned out by the “everything is awesome” mentality where each moment needs to be extreme, meaningful, worthwhile and special. 

Because Christ, the Son of Man, paralyzed sin and death for us, we must continue to trust him and bring others to his feet.

As we celebrate the birth of the Protestant Reformation, 500 years ago this fall, that we will meditate on Galatians, which Luther called “my Katie von Bora,” in six Morning Devotions over the semester.  

WSC President Joel Kim's opening convocation message entitled, “Becoming Less.”