Can Christians welcome sinners without affirming sin? Jesus certainly does when he offers living water to the woman at the well.

Christians ought to follow Jesus’ example by welcoming sinners. While we can’t affirm sin, we also can’t slam the door in a person’s face. We want everyone, especially sinners like us, to hear about Jesus. How do we do that in the midst of a culture war?

As a young boy at St. John's Lutheran Church, Roland Rossmiller stood up on Christmas Eve and recited Gospel of John3:16 from memory. At the time, they were simply words to get right in front of the congregation.

Years later, he came to understand what those words truly mean.

This message is a clear proclamation of grace: salvation begins with God’s love, not ours. The cross reveals the real cost of sin. Faith is not a work we perform but the empty hand that receives Christ. Apart from Him there is perishing—but in Him there is certainty, forgiveness, peace with God, and eternal life that begins now.

What does it really mean to confess, “I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth”?

In this Lenten sermon series on the Nicene Creed, Pastor James Huenink begins with the First Article—God the Father as Creator and Provider. Far from being distant or detached, the Father is actively at work in every part of creation: feeding, clothing, sustaining, and guiding history toward its final fulfillment in Christ.

Why confess the Nicene Creed instead of the Apostles’ Creed?

On this Ash Wednesday, Pastor James Huenink begins a Lenten sermon series on the theology and history of the Nicene Creed—why it was written in AD 325, what problem it was meant to solve, and why it still matters for Christians today.

At the Council of Nicaea, the Church confronted the false teaching of Arius, who claimed that Jesus was not truly God but a created being. The bishops gathered to defend what Scripture teaches: that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one God in three persons. Later, at the First Council of Constantinople, the Church clarified the full divinity and personhood of the Holy Spirit.

God encourages us to pray for justice.

God encourages us to pray for justice.