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Lord’s Day Liturgy

Every Lord’s Day at Trinity Evangel Church we confess our sins together and come to the Lord’s Table. These are the exhortations I’ve written for both, Sunday by Sunday since 2011.

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2026
lord’s day	confession	communion
Oct 18	Authority Troubles	Misthology
Oct 11	Prayer Guidance	Public Execution
Oct 4	Anger Options	Flock Cameras Don't Even Know
Sep 27	Choked by a Shirt-Sleeve Cuff	Better Than One Day
Sep 20	Keeping Your Kids Stupid	Subject to the Father
Sep 13	Anchor of the Soul	More Has Been Watered Down
Sep 6	Across Columns	Unabashed about His Brothers
Aug 30	Ridē Fidē	You Have Been Served
Aug 23	Against Sowing Discord	A New Reproach
Aug 16	Drawe One Waye	The Joy of the Fisherman
Aug 9	An Oar to the Head	The Defining Feature
Aug 2	I've Got Your Back	The Not-Deserving
Jul 26	Christian Resistance	A Great Fool
Jul 19	Trials of Temptations	No Other Gods Have Eternal Life
Jul 5	A Nation That Worships	The Devil's Loss
Jun 21	Dad Profits	Complete or Not?
Jun 14	Putting Our Week and Our Work on the Altar	The Supper Doesn't Starve Faith
Jun 7	No Surrogate Surrender	Beloved in the Beloved
May 31	Chewing the Meat	Not Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
May 24	Turn, Turn, Turn	When Does It Matter?
May 17	Short Accounts for ME	Jesus Knew Where He Belonged
May 10	A Certain Vibe	Gratitude Is a Vibe
May 3	A Good Story to Tell	Our Savior
Apr 26	Higher Up the Flagpole	Called to Communion
Apr 19	Neither Butt Kiss or Be a Butt	Communicable Giving
Apr 12	Church Leaders	Re-birth Mark
Apr 5	Peace Indeed	Everything Is Changed
Mar 22	The Assembly's Amen	A Mind to Condescend
Mar 15	Poured Out as a Drink Offering	Better Rejoicing Resources
Mar 8	Rich in Mercy	Mercy Is Not Like Property Taxes
Mar 1	Not Being Someone's Scapegoat	The Spirit Makes It Make Sense
Feb 22	The Help of Jerks	Biblical Impossibles
Feb 15	A THIQ Standard	A Defining Sense of Self
Feb 8	The Only Parenting Tip You Really Need	A Turned People
Feb 1	Getting to the Bottom	Not Even If We Had Eternity
Jan 25	Frequent Targets	For the Found
Jan 18	When Evil Is Not Detached	Too Cool for Church?
Jan 11	One Job	Good for the Group
Jan 4	Running Again	Trinitarian Communion

2025
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 28	2% Pride?	The Grace Is Real
Dec 21advent	Bored by This Baby?	Behold, the Days Are Coming
Dec 14advent	No Season for Stinginess	A King Who Conquered Death
Dec 7advent	Advent Impatience	Sons of Blessing
Nov 30advent	Revelation, Covenants, and Advent	Vessels of Blessing
Nov 16thanksgiving	Gratitude Trees	Against Sour Stew
Nov 9	Institutional Pimples	Further Along?
Nov 2	Hell Is a Real Horror	Scheduled Joy
Oct 26	Say Amen More	Some Divisions Aren't Dumb
Oct 19	Palace Pillars	Light Is Right
Oct 12	Pride Is a Mother	We Are All Hamans
Oct 5	World Stains	How Can We Lose?
Sep 28	Hygienic Violence	Shovels to the Enemy
Sep 21	Banking on AI Therapy	Consecrated Communion
Sep 14	So Many Like Cain	The Turning Point of That First Resurrection Sunday
Sep 7	Sopping Britches	A Better Calling
Aug 31	Before Confrontation	The Path to Greatness
Aug 24	Easy to Forget	A Turn of Events
Aug 17	No. Wrong. Whatever.	Bread-sharers
Aug 10	Annoying Humans	Love and Steadfastness
Aug 3	More Manure	Re-forming Every Sunday
Jul 27	Standing on Shoulders Standing on the Word	God's Man, God's Assembly
Jul 13	Not All the Ones Doing the Verbs are the Nouns	All Favorites
Jul 6	Blessed Breads	Communion Let Loose
Jun 29	Another Halfway	Identity Doubts
Jun 22	Harm upon Harm	Faith That Is Fed
Jun 15	Mini-Pharaohs	Love Is on the Board
Jun 8	It Doesn't Always Have to Be Hard	No Time Like the Present
Jun 1	Goldilocks-level	Remembrance of Anticipation
May 25	You Have One Job	He Endured for Joy for Our Enduring Joy
May 18	Fight the Drift	Amen, Amen!
May 11	Choked by the World	The Hour of Glory
May 4	No Time at All	Not Unimunion
Apr 27	Rotten in Denmark	We Don't Get Wet Again
Apr 20easter	Baskets with Plastic Grass	First of Many
Apr 13palm sunday	The Trouble with Losing	Seven Days
Apr 6	Dribbling to the Left	Same Team, No Taunts
Mar 30	Are You Winning?	What Even Is Community?
Mar 23	Righteous Fruit	Radical Fruit
Mar 16	Soul-Winning	A Community of the Consecrated
Mar 9	Pulling Your Train Off the Tracks	Good Hope
Mar 2	The Run-for-Imperishable-Prize Life	Hole-and-Corner Reformers
Feb 23	Is Good Not Good?	Because It's Awesome
Feb 16	Spousal Sanctification	A Mega Tone
Feb 9	A Make or Break Table By the End of Today
Feb 2	Aristotle's Knees	Over Our Heads
Jan 26	Confessing the Truth	Witnessing to an Invisible Audience
Jan 12	TEC at 14 Two Revolutions	Our Week Doesn't Start on Friday
Jan 5	Fruitful Followers	They Thought It Was

2024
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 29	For the Throat	The Order of the Meal
Dec 22christmas	Dark Days
Dec 15christmas	Sinning by Sentiment	Self-Improvement
Dec 8adventthanksgiving	The Limits of Swaddling Cloths	Pre- and Post-Gratitude
Dec 1advent	The Wrong Avoidance Rules	A Preposterous Descent
Nov 24thanksgiving	Soul Expansion	The Greatest Gift
Nov 17	Sustainability by Scripture	Good in More Places Than the Dictionary
Nov 10	It's Not All Paved Over	Again and Again
Nov 3	Trusting in Dust	Not a Title Game
Oct 27	Privileged Resistance	Not to Tear Down
Oct 20	Deceived into Dreadful Thinking	The Great Peace Offering
Oct 13	Super Blessed	The Eternal List
Oct 6	Among the Sinners or the Stirred?	A Good Inventory
Sep 29	The Worst Punctuation in ALL of English Literature	You Will Be Joy-kay
Sep 22	Losing Your Roll	Hungry Blessings
Sep 15	A Capital S	Different Not Divided
Sep 8	The Frame of Depravity	A Faithful Word
Sep 1	Hate Works	He Died for Our Once
Aug 25	The Grace Wind Tunnel	Against Indifferent Lollygagging
Aug 18	On Not Talking Back
Aug 11	The Self-control Prayer
Aug 4	Reasoning about Self-Control to Rulers	Self-control and the Lord's Supper
Jul 28	Getting Worked Up	Remember Love
Jul 21	Trashing the House	A Great Exchange
Jul 7	Making - or Breaking - Households	Unburdened Reverence
Jun 30	June Life Jubilee	A Table for Our Health
Jun 16	Self-Contradiction	Thankful Opposites
Jun 9	Farmers Believe It	Obtained by Blood
Jun 2	On Being Blameless	Communion in the Present Age
May 26	Be Careful Little Thumbs	Godly Communion
May 19	Left to Our Own Devices	Taking Joy
May 12	The Habit of the Saved	Remember Mercy
May 5	Second to None	Not a Table of Taunts
Apr 28	In the Bag	Don't Shrink Back
Apr 21	Confession Ex Nihilo	Every Believing Babylonian
Apr 14	Confession 101	Like a Herd of Gerasene Swine
Apr 7	How Long
Mar 31easter	No More Pivotal Day	What's More Impossible
Mar 24	Partially Right	Much More
Mar 17	Not Layers of Paperwork	Resurrection Resurrection
Mar 10	The Anger Trap	Outfitted by Blood
Mar 3	Advanced Level Indignation	Recommendation Letters
Feb 25	Killing Without Contact	The Good Old News
Feb 11	Anger by Another Name	Blessings with Taste
Feb 4	What It Really Means to Be Right	Mission Communion
Jan 28	Burning Desire	What Is Like Our Communion?
Jan 21	Put Off Anger	Communion-telic
Jan 14	Get Them Out	Baptized for Communion
Jan 7	Unguarded Faith	Preach What You Practice

2023
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 31	The Easiest Person to Fool	Forgiven and Favored
Dec 24	Giving Delight	A Dominion of Gift
Dec 17	What Good Traditions Are For	The Climactic Crescendo
Dec 10	By the Plateful	The Early Stages
Dec 3advent	No Disordered-Contentment December	Waiting Generationally
Nov 26	Cute Covenant Couples	Hating the Results
Nov 19	A Brotherly Metaphor	A Communion of Seers
Nov 12	Not Our Own	Making Us a Choir
Nov 5	Not Trespassing on Sexual Passion and Parts	What Peace Can Be Expected?
Oct 29reformation	Man's Chief Blessing	The Greatest World Dangers
Oct 15	Adorned in Holiness and Honor	Assurance to All
Oct 8	Intentional Distance	Any but Not All
Oct 1	Cute Is Not Enough	A Table of Tension
Sep 24	The Opposite Sex and Sanctification	Jesus and Us
Sep 17	Political Firsts	The Essential Cup of Blessing
Sep 10	Appearances vs. Actuals	Louder Than the Law
Sep 3	THIQ Obedience - the verses edition	Doomcommuning
Aug 27	Thankful on Their Way	Ordained to Overcome
Aug 20	Let There Be...
Aug 13	Out of Place	Not Laissez Faire Fare
Aug 6	Not Even Named	No Lazy Zeal
Jul 30	Not in This House	Sharing in the From-Through-To-Him One
Jul 23	Just Hit Like	No Measure to His Endowments
Jul 16	Delete the App*	Pleasing at Present
Jul 9	Rich in Mercy	Quite an Earful
Jun 11	Food that Fixes	How Our God Is Not
Jun 4	Checked-Out Loves	No Holy Hierarchy by Office
May 28	Jerks and Jealousy	Speckled, Spotted, and Strong
May 21	Favorite Infections	Supper Specifics
May 14	Jealousable Moms	Reconciled to Life
May 7	Jealousable Salt	All the Offerings
Apr 30	Jealousable Adorning	Credit to the Teaching
Apr 23	Impatient over Misery	Four Unworthy Ways at the Lord's Supper
Apr 16	Pastoral Attention	Hands Out
Apr 9easter	Buried Grudges	The Lamp of the Lamb
Apr 2	Not Far Away	Suffering Week
Mar 26	A Cosmic Portfolio	Lordship Style
Mar 19	A Cardboard Mirror of Self-Flattery	A Table Call
Mar 12	Not Bummed Out	The Bread Is Live
Mar 5		When You Don't Have a Name For All Their Problems
Feb 26	Tumors and Tedium	Never Put to Shame
Feb 19	Bloody Serious	Communion Delight
Feb 12	Casting Off	Not New and Improved
Feb 5	Bad All Over	Archetypal Deliverance
Jan 29	Spiritual Nerves	A Cupboard Full of Vessels
Jan 22	We'll Know How It Happened	An Invitation Scandal
Jan 15	Not Going Back to Egypt
Jan 8	Raising a Flag	He Is Ours
Jan 1	As a Man Scrolleth	Love Practice

2022
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 25christmas	Waiting for Perfection	Born to Reign
Dec 18advent	The Lex Talionis Gift List	Second Advent Caring
Dec 11advent	Advent Honesty	Anticipation Proper
Dec 4advent	Defeated Devil December	He Didn't Wait
Nov 27advent	Divine Love and Bad Choices	Familiar Trees
Nov 20thanksgiving	Kill Covetousness	Blessed Eyes
Nov 13	Sin in the Body	On Not Acting Like the Dead
Nov 6	Mirror Image	Communionicating
Oct 30reformation	The Word of Protest	Beware the Phishing of Philosophers
Oct 23	Killing Anger	A Dud to Some
Oct 16	No Mercy	Seeking Death
Oct 9	The Law as Revealed Will	The Right Order
Oct 2	Wretched Isn't All	Communion Renewal
Sep 25	As Easy as Confession	Glad That We're Back
Sep 18	Scoffers Don't Care	Feasting for Strength
Sep 11	Discipline or Destruction Sin as Fire	Part of Our Protection
Aug 28	Sundays as the Start for Strength	The Lord as Host
Aug 21	Jumping on the Drums
Aug 14	More Holy Glory	In His Crosshairs
Aug 7	Ordered Affections	Renewing amidst Ruining
Jul 31	Even the Boring	Nothing Can Stop Him
Jul 24	Affection Deficit	Life Laid Down
Jul 17	A Working Reputation	One Degree of Sacrifice to Another Glory Is Central
Jul 10	The Three Rs
Jul 3	Rejoicing in Roe's Reversal	Cross Views
Jun 26	Wherever You Go	Behind the Wall
Jun 12	The Will of God and Buyer's Remorse	At His Disposal
Jun 5	Anywhere We Meet	Liturgical Scandals
May 29	A Jealousable Move Trellis and Transplants	Adam's Example In Uno Multis
May 15	The Golden Rule for Parents	Born This Way
May 8	Like a Mother	When It Gets Bad
May 1	Are We There Yet?	Together in Affection
Apr 24		Out of Bounds
Apr 17easter	An Awful Lot Unsupervised Kids	A Forefeast
Apr 10palm sundayeaster	Candy and Christian Nationalism	Triumphal Prophecy
Apr 3	What's Good About Obedience	We Must Be Hatched
Mar 27	Parents Picturing Parents	What is a Christian?
Mar 20		Before We Mess It Up
Mar 13	Upholding Love Unilateral Forgiveness	The Lord of the Table Is One
Mar 6lent	Girding Your Mental Loins	On Not Fasting from Joy
Feb 27	The Shape of Our Life Together	All My "Russian" Friends
Feb 20	Mad Awesome	One Little Feast Shall Fell Him
Feb 13	The School of Fish Strategy	Something Is Odd
Feb 6	What Did Bathsheba Think?	Six Presets for Only Two Stations
Jan 30	Chunks of Rancid Meat	Distributed Glory
Jan 23	The Pointy Side of the Anvil Blind Spots Are Rarely Lovely	We Are Regulars Here
Jan 9	Puddleglum Is Not an Epithet Standing with Our Christian Brothers in Canada on What God Says about Sexuality	Our Cup Overflows
Jan 2	See, Hate, and Leave	Weekly Fellowship

2021
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 26	Blessed Bible Reading	Falling or Rising
Dec 19advent		Manger Ministries
Dec 12advent	Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Christmas An Irritated Puddle of Retaliatory Goo	Following the First
Dec 5advent	Not a Puddle under the Pine Tree	A Contumelious Wall
Nov 28advent	Free to Love Christmas	Communion with Immanuel
Nov 21thanksgiving	Godliness and Gratitude	Fragrant Feasts
Nov 14	Don't Stay Dry	The Cornerstone of Identity
Nov 7	More Than a Covering	The King's Kindness
Oct 31	Local Fruit	Against Indulgences
Oct 24	Quicker Than Tomatoes	Blessed Forever
Oct 17	The Great Pneuma	Can't Help It
Oct 10	Fleshly Esse
Sep 26	Wherever You Go Threat Is on the Table	Long Hugs and Pirate-Sounding-Song-Singing Without Needing to Google It
Sep 12	No Shortage of Little Popes
Sep 5	No More Nuh-uh	Without Remaining Charge
Aug 29	Against a Painted Happiness	A Gospel Salvo
Aug 22	Those Who Call on the Lord	A Blanket of Porcupine Quills
Aug 15	Not in the Now	Something to Miss
Aug 1	Law and Love	What a Friend
Jul 25	Like a Lace Coat	More But Not Less Than Mental
Jul 18	Two Moving Toward One	Familiarity Breeds
Jul 11	Ready for Grace	Eat Local
Jul 4	Nations Under God	The Owner of the Vineyard
Jun 27	Hasten Up	The Taste of a Father
Jun 13	Mental Ladder-Climbing Over Others
Jun 6	More Like Inflammation	Temple Terminology
May 30	Radiance or Resentations	A Mathematical Baby Step
May 23	The Greater Scandal	Better Than a Thousand Elsewhere
May 16	A Desire for His Approval	Don't Make Them Pay
May 9	A Heart to Run	It Found Out Me
May 2	Full Obedience	Fattened Up
Apr 25	Unbribable	Not Safe But Sane
Apr 18	Live Not by Lice	The Beginning and the End
Apr 11	Hectic Fever	Our Marveling Mechanisms
Apr 4easter	Know, Reckon, Yield	The Price of Passion
Mar 28	Hard Feelings
Mar 21	Obviously Hated	The Beautifying Stage
Mar 14	Assume It's You	His Doom Is Sure
Mar 7	The Weight of Hell on His Shoulders	Word Then Wine
Feb 28	More Than Not Smoking with the ER Doctors	Flaking Out A Weepless Future
Feb 21	More Than Ramping Up Smack Talk	The Binding Agent
Feb 7	Admonishment and Astonishment
Jan 31	A Heavy Hand	Like a Threadbare Sweater
Jan 24	If an Idiot Falls in a Forest
Jan 17	A Heart That Is True
Jan 10	Individualism Groups	The Boast of a Fool
Jan 3	Mere Accuracy	More Than Pejoratives

2020
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 20advent	The Seven Spirits of Grumpiness	The Great Conjunction of Death and Joy
Dec 13	The Umpire over Rogue Responses	Downplaying Salvation
Dec 6christmas	Guard Rail Posts Scotch Taped to the Road	Heavenly Food
Nov 29	Holes Punched on Your Frequent Sadness Card	40 Miles Uphill
Nov 22thanksgiving	Quotidian Coveting and Emotional Control	A Feast of Promise
Nov 15	Emotional Epilepsy	Liars and Outliers
Nov 8	The Heart of the Problem	No Good Without His Coming
Nov 1	The Vanity of Man-Centered Vanity	The Score Is Settled
Oct 25	This Is Your Vote	The Table of His Testimony
Oct 18	You’re Already Wet	Soap, Water, and Anxiousness
Oct 11	You Did Good	Service Options
Sep 27	Seeing Red	Deaden or Gladden
Sep 20	An Important Idea-Shelf	Always Baking, Never Buttering
Sep 13	Good News and New Goods	No Comparison
Sep 6		A Big As Out of Enmity
Aug 30	A Rusty Nail in the Foot Would Be Better	The Biggest Poser
Aug 23	Building Concerns	An Hebdomadal Schedule
Aug 16	Accusing the Brothers	Most Apoplectic
Aug 9	Get Blessed and Bold	Premarital Beautification
Aug 2	Important Elections	Not Losing Our Head
Jul 26	That We May Lead Faithful Lives	Communion Criticisms
Jul 19	Sinful Exhortations	To the Foot of the Cross
Jul 12	Praying for Common Grace	Look Around
Jul 5	An Edenic Divide FoBIG	What He's Prepared We're Not Alone The Sum
Jun 28	A Cosmic Ton of Truth A Climate of Repentance	Masks Are Winning He Is Still the Answer In the Presence of Our Enemies
Jun 21	A Finger Down Their Throat Conspiracy Theories Like Pollen in the Windshield Crevices	Who Rides Shotgun
Jun 14	The Wrong Sin The Fear of Man Takes a Knee	Yet He Doth Sing How Many Doors
Apr 12easter	Confession Is Not Futile	Coronapocrisy and a Communion of Conquerors
Apr 5	Salvation So Free	Seriously Bad
Mar 29	Rust on the Bottom of the Chair	That Is Our Habit
Mar 22	Perfect as the Enemy of Celebratory Post-Party Depression	Relational, Not Just Liturgical Distance Communion
Mar 8	Better Than Fingernail Clippings	Getting Away from His Face
Mar 1	Knitted Onsies and Latte Punch	Not Just Generalizations
Feb 23	Wrapped Around the Rudder	Not Easily Peaced
Feb 16	Just Say No	The End of Rage
Feb 9	Just the Generic	Hellish Hearts
Feb 2	What Are You Waiting For?	Celebrated Here but Not Created Here
Jan 26	62 Million Abortions and Counting Right On
Jan 19	Not Your Modern's Therapy	Lauded by Angels
Jan 12	Dirty Feet	Fresh Reasons
Jan 5	Get Wiser	Liturgy to Lifestyle

2019
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 29	Take On, Take Off	Joining the Angels
Dec 22advent	A Condescending Lesson	Christmas Communion
Dec 15advent	The Will of His Throne	The Spirit of Christmas
Dec 8advent	Identity Requires Faith	A Flesh and Blood Brother
Dec 1advent	Not a Hands Off God	A Father's Christmas
Nov 24thanksgiving	He Gives Gratitude-Power	The Point Where We Can Really Get Going
Nov 17	A Bad Identity	Resurrection and Return
Nov 10	Jesus Is King	As Good as It's Ever Been
Nov 3	At Insane Levels	He Knows Your Name
Oct 27reformation	Faithful Sons	Gospel Odor
Oct 20	Maybe More Effective Than a Curse	Saliva and Plastic as Gifts
Oct 13	The Blessing of Being Lied About	Counting Waves
Oct 6	Walking among the Lampstands	Not the Sanctimonious Sisterhood of Bossy Pants
Sep 29	A Bellyaching Bucket	Keeping the Adjective
Sep 22	Don't Forget That	No Greater Harbor
Sep 15		False Comforts and Fear of Comforts
Sep 8	Repent of Defeatist Faith	Worthy Is the Lamb
Sep 1	Conquering Worldliness
Aug 18	The Apocalypse
Jul 28	Give Me Understanding	Making Eye Contact with the Judge
Jul 14	Partial Fide	Praise Among the Nations
Jul 7	Garrulous Talk	Cutting the Cords
Jun 30	Witnessing Songs	The Idea Was More Than Ideas
Jun 23	Ruining the Taste	Thanks in Advance
Jun 16	The Dad Hat	The Lord Builds
Jun 9	Formerly Known as Selfish Fathead	Never the Same Person Twice
Jun 2	Justifiable Blessings	Now We Belong
May 26	I Like Job, but I Don’t Want to Be Like Job	Proclaiming the Lord’s Love Until He Comes
May 19	Where It Wafts	Not a Crumb of a Cardboard Cracker
May 12	To Be Clear about Hell
May 5	Is It a Sin to Be Weak?	What a Perishable Seed Can Do
Apr 28	A Small Snail Named Apollyon	Taunts of the Assembly
Apr 21	Not As I Will	So Hard Its Undoing
Apr 14palm sunday	The Dungeon of Chronic Grievances	After the Fact
Apr 7	Polluted Garments on the Easter Table	Foolproof Resurrection
Mar 31	Make Easter Great Again	All the Prepositions
Mar 24	More Than You Know	We Are Not Pretending
Mar 17	Get Out of the Puddle	The Witness Proclamation Program
Mar 10	Confession 201	Desire for Communion as Disciples
Mar 3	How Easily We Forget	Comfort from the Dead-raiser
Feb 24	They Don’t Need a Sticker	When Receivers Are Received
Feb 17	Remove the Rust	Good Things from Three Persons
Feb 3	Not The Stages of Outrages	What Other Table?
Jan 27	Blessing-ficiaries	No Lesser Bread
Jan 20	Our Father Who Judges	Open Communion, Closed Membership
Jan 13	Perpetual Shortfall	All a Pitter-pattering
Jan 6	Calvinist Knees	Communion That Smells

2018
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 30	Buried and Barricaded	Gaining Weight
Dec 23christmas	When We Have Problems	O Come Again, Emmanuel
Dec 16advent	Deserving a Different Christmas	Born with Flesh
Dec 9advent	When You Can See More Cracks in Contentment	Intermittent Feasting
Dec 2advent	No Discontent December	Finished with Discipline
Nov 25	Motivation Above	A Spoonful of Flour
Nov 18thanksgiving	Make It Perfect	Thankful for the Body
Nov 11	The Biggest Display at the Ministry Fair	Royal Blood
Nov 4	Eye Opening	Comparatively Uppity
Oct 28reformation	The Vocabulary of Repentance	The Supper Is a Sermon
Oct 21	Because Others Refused	More Melody Than Misery
Oct 14	Bolognology	The Nature of Bread and Wine
Oct 7	Sin into a Proper Noun	Likeness Sharers
Sep 23	Liberating Glory	Everything Intended
Sep 16	All His Commandments Too Thankful for the Right Things
Sep 9	What You Tolerate	Substantive Sharing
Sep 2	Wise in His Own Worship	How Grain Gets Memorialized Lyrics and Harmony
Aug 12	Bow Down	The Mask Is Off
Aug 5	Appears to Meet the Specs	We Were Tohu va Bohu
Jul 29	Full Attention	What Good Is That
Jul 22	There Is Always Someone	The Most Honorable Lineage By Faith We Do Stuff
Jul 15	No Mercenaries of Thanks Ministry	Stomping Out the Rock Juice
Jul 8	Chosen and Expressly Named	A Feast of Self-Control
Jul 1	Interconnecting Gears	It’s the Law
Jun 24	Belly Worship	Dead at the Cross
Jun 17	Self-Esteem Propaganda	The Father’s Generosity
Jun 10	Truth-Tubes	Not by Self-Promotion
Jun 3	As Thin as the Wifi Signal	The Government of Stability
May 27	The Bottom Line	Where He Starts
May 20	No Lifehacks for Obedience	The Disconnect of Discontent
May 13	Proverbial Nose Bleeds	Affections in Maternal Tones
May 6	Knots and Nooses	So Not Okay
Apr 29	A Candle Under Your Hoodie	Bitter Would Be a Start
Apr 22	Believing Believers	The Valley of the Shadow of Freaking Out
Apr 15	Blessed Forever	Look for a Second
Mar 25	Choices as Saints	Drinking the Purchase Price
Mar 18	Cosmic and Concentrated	Limbs and Organs
Mar 11	Sex Is for Fruit	A Table of Reckoning
Mar 4	Two Blesseds	Has Beens
Feb 25	Most Likely to Be an Arbiter	Take Him to Dinner
Feb 11	Left Without Discipline	Discipline of a Different Style
Feb 4	The Limits of Pretending Friends	Fixed in Mind We Eat What We Are
Jan 28	In the Orchard of Blessings
Jan 21	He Invites Us In
Jan 14	The Very First Blessing	Body and Soul
Jan 7	Forgiveness Equals Freedom	Making a Mess

2017
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 31	Really Blessed	Hanging up a New Calendar
Dec 24advent	Keeping the Incarnation on the Front Burner	Still Bringing People Together
Dec 17advent	A Season to Be Made More Sturdy	The Gluten of Your Family
Dec 10advent	The Spirit of AntiChristmas	The Goat that Went Away
Dec 3advent	More Hope for Fools Twenty-Four Whole Days	The Lesser of All Things To Judge or Not To Judge
Nov 19thanksgiving	Against Raising Our Kids to Be Pornographers and Prostitutes	Without the Stickers
Nov 12	Give Me a Break	We Love His Handouts
Nov 5reformation	The “Institutes” Twice a Year Your Neighbor’s Slop	A Spirit of Fermentation Meat to Live Out
Oct 22	Spiritual Adulting Is Hard
Oct 15	It Feels Like Conflict	Davids and Daniels Contradicting the Celebrating
Oct 8	A Moral Pebble in Your Shoe
Oct 1	Kneeling on Sundays	Who Wants the Cross?
Sep 24	Bearing Their Gravitas	Not Just Speech Patterns
Sep 17	Perspective Fail	Remembering How We Are Supposed to Die
Sep 10	The Debt Immense	First, We Eat
Sep 3	Jealous of a Complainer
Aug 27		The Place of the Sulk
Aug 20	Broccoli for Dinner Shape and Cadence	Differences Are Assumed
Aug 6	Bleeding Forgivness	A Long Session in the Same Direction
Jul 30	What Is Earthly	Even More Personal
Jul 23	Wings to a Bird
Jul 16	Serious Bible Studiers	Brains and Bread
Jul 9	Freedom from Confusion Is a Gift	Life in the Body
Jul 2	Spiritual Shapeshifters	Get You Out of Bed Truths
Jun 18	Divine Smack Talk
Jun 11	Pots Throwing Pieces
Jun 4	Calvinist Excuses	No More Intended Evil
May 28	The Damp Bounty Paper Towel	Locating Trust The Patriarch’s Prophetic Blessing
May 21	On Not Wandering Like a Verbal Amoeba
Apr 30	A Bucket Worth of Behavior	Stamped with New Value
Apr 16easter	Behold Him Better	Easter Had to Be Effective
Apr 9	On Not Sponsoring Stupidity	Accounting for Participation
Apr 2	On Not Being a YAC	All Sorts of Quests Totus Pravus
Mar 26	Their Website Address A Longer Prayer	Greatness Under Cover
Mar 12	After the Final Amen	Not in Me
Mar 5	Right Out of the Oven The "Oh, no!" Conjunction	Familiarity Breeds Exsultamus!
Feb 12	A Lot of Calvinistic Sun in the Sky	The Cup in Our Hands
Feb 5	Current Visibility	In Remembrance of Where Christ Is
Jan 29	Not to Make Us Stars	More Suitable for Church People
Jan 22	Verbal Forklifts Not Required	A Way of Life
Jan 15	Open Up the Spigot	Won to His Side
Jan 8	Pater Noster	A Principal Ornament
Jan 1	Those Who Don't Pray	Outright Dependence

2016
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 25advent	Songs Working Overtime	What was He doing here?
Dec 18advent	A Time to Give, Apparently	The Suburbs of Fellowship
Dec 11advent	We Need the Wait Training	Then He Was Washed
Dec 4advent	Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Christmas Outside Our Comfort-Circles	Like Esau?
Nov 27advent	Not to High-Five Our Righteousness	Made Limp in order to Lean
Nov 20thanksgiving	Lapping the Pace Car	Thanks Not Required (at least in the way we might think)
Oct 23	The Goodness of God’s Discipline	No Other Bride for Christ
Sep 25	The Taste of Truth	288 Ways to Judgment
Sep 18	It’s a Lie	The Problems with Blessings
Sep 11	A Profanity Problem	Big Brother
Aug 7	Internal Adornment That Shows	The Top of the Faith Chart A Tomb in Canaan
Jul 31	Close to Home
Jul 10	The Life Behind	Strong "Ewww" Reflexes
Feb 14	No Stand Ins	Breaking the Divide
Jan 24	Busts along the Wall	Communion Against Abortion
Jan 17	Two Tables for Ten	Chosen Symbols
Jan 10	Flotsam and Jetsam	Not in Remembrance of You
Jan 3	Convicting Clarity	Overactive Victimhood

2015
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 27	As the Year Turns	Savior of the Nations Delighting in the Saints
Dec 20advent	Grasping and Grabbing Wrapped with Ribbon No Good Drunk
Dec 13	Hiding Behind a Newspaper
Nov 29	Gravy That Requires Forks and Knives	The Blood of a New Humanity
Nov 22thanksgiving	Your Paper Is Too Small
Nov 1	He Condemned the World	Getting Accustomed Again
Oct 25	Separate from the Sexual Fray The Blockheads of Earth	Our Supernatural Squeamishness Enthroned over the Cross
Oct 18	A Long Drive Choose Your Own Epithet	New Soil A Certain Way
Oct 4		It's Happening
Sep 20	Slipping the Hold	Complex Carbohydrates
Sep 13	The World as God	Two Kinds of Worldlings
Sep 6	Driven by Jealousy	Blood Speaks
Aug 30	As Old as Dirt Made into Man	Sharing in the Symbols Offerings That Please God
Aug 23	Which One Looks the Most Shady
Aug 2	Stiff-arming the Truth	That Sickening Feeling
Jul 26	You've Got to Know When to Get Out of There	More Than One Vessel
Jul 19	The Gunk on Our Glasses	A Spoiled Supper
Jul 12	Such a Bone Head	Bricks on the Wall
Jul 5	Motivation for Obedience	Not the Final Meeting
Jun 28	Running Out of Generations	He Has Us Covered
Jun 21	Paternity Tests	His Shots Will Backfire
Jun 14	Spilling the Beans onto Someone Else's Lap	Premeditated Forgiveness
Jun 7	It's a Big Estate Passing Our Lusts Through Spell-Check	Ad Nauseum Wholus Foodus The Fountainhead of Antithesis
May 24	Inching up the Triangle	Before or After?
May 17	Indeed a Political Act	An Interrogative Shovel
May 10	An Act of Life	Two Adams
May 3	How to Go Glutton-Free	All That He's Provided The Day of Resting Revelry
Apr 26	That Big Piece of Leftover Cheesecake
Apr 19	Dinner and Devotions	More Than Thinking
Apr 12	The Stamp of an Image-Bearer	Image Conscious
Apr 5easter	The Living and the Dead	A Resurrection Relationship
Mar 29easter	Not Running Over Pedestrians	Not Even the Days Are Figurative
Mar 22	They Would Be Dead by Now	Bread Has Never Sinned
Mar 15	Envy Kills	As Reliable as the Sunrise
Mar 8	What Fits?	Let There Be Light
Mar 1	The Whole Row	Less Mary Poppins Snapping
Feb 22	Shooting Whales in a Barrel
Feb 15	Ongoing Application	Be Cheered!
Feb 8	The Tyrant's Life	The Nature of Things
Feb 1	An Airtight Case
Jan 11	Hunt You Down
Jan 4	Something Has to Be Done

2014
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 28	Focus on Rejoicing	What's Your Problem?
Dec 21christmas	Not Your Gift	Christmas Counters
Dec 14	Lawless Laws	We Get Closer
Dec 7	Our Pile of Sin	Reached the Quota
Nov 30	Turn, Turn, Turn The Rounds Are Live	Things That Stand Out
Nov 23thanksgiving	Thanksgrabbing	Forsaken by God
Nov 9	Overlooking Glory	Most Saturday Nights
Nov 2	The Fruit of the Womb
Oct 19	Protecting Our Talk	Everything in Subjection
Oct 12	Three Nots	The Son and the Psalter
Mar 23	I Am Not My Own	A Zero Ego Party
Mar 16	Racing Back for More	Making Himself Known
Mar 9	Prayer for Sanctification	Many Offspring from One Offering
Mar 2	Loathsome Liturgy
Feb 23	Say the Same Thing	Training and Tasting Table Rules
Feb 16	Comparing Kills
Feb 2	Cracks in the Sidewalk	One Table, Two Bodies The Tone of His Table This Table Is Reserved
Jan 26	Before It Gets Worse
Jan 19	Near the Top of the Lists
Jan 12	Saved from Righteousness	Blood That Speaks

2013
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 29advent	Trimming the Fat	Sympathy and Division We Win in Him
Dec 22advent	The Sin of Seasonal Humbug Passion and Patience
Dec 8advent	Listening to Sad Songs	Merry Communion!
Dec 1thanksgivingadvent	Why Bother?	No Pilgrimages to Holy Places A Holiday Challenge
Nov 24thanksgiving	Where Authority Belongs Gratitude Divas	For the Last Time When You're Jealous
Nov 10	East and Not-East
Nov 3	Fostering Awareness	Chasing with A Bigger Rake
Oct 27	Surprised by Sin	All God's Fullness
Oct 13	Catching the Right Bus	A Long Thank You Note
Oct 6	We've Got a Long Way to Go	Fruit by Derivative
Sep 29	Not About Heaven's Books A Confession Blessing	As If It Is Real Cooked and Consumed
Sep 22		It Can't Be Privatized
Sep 15	Broken Pencils
Sep 8	Centuries Long Confusion	Glossing the Skids A Successful Catastrophe
Sep 1	A Lot of Trouble
Aug 25	Adorned with Bible Verses	We Can't Be Silent
Aug 18	Struck Out Looking	They Didn't Know Called to a Common Commandment
Aug 11	He Knows
Aug 4	Obedience Is Rock	A Good Washing Pair-a-Bowla
Jul 28	We Don't Go Back to Dead
Jul 21	Pinning Jealousy	Make It Look Good
Jul 7	Who Told You That?	The Lard from a Nickel Getting up from the Table
Jun 30	Full of It
Jun 9	A Pocketful of Pesos Tightening the Screws	One Makes the Other The Omniscient Forgiver
May 26	Half as Well	Finishing What He Finished
May 19		We Can Die It
Jan 13	Trickle up from Our Knees	The Food We Serve
Jan 6	Another Sort of Sight Not with Contempt	Honoring the Son of Man

2012
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 30	We Don't Have It	Say Who He Is
Dec 23advent	The Hardest Part	Into This World
Dec 16		Stuck in the Driveway
Dec 9	Holding Out the Sharpie
Dec 2christmas	Lying Stands Out	The Nature of Sacrifice Minor Chord Carols
Nov 25	Practice Proves Parentage
Nov 18	Take It to Heart	Our Own Orphan Sunday
Nov 11	Raking Face	The Larger Conflict Arc
Oct 28	Our Last Names	Right Behind Isolation
Oct 21	God Never Wants to Say No	An Accountability Table
Oct 14	Guilty of All	His Kids' Table
Oct 7	Ready to Run	A Real Mess
Sep 30	Joy That Cannot Be Lost	A Glorious Certainty
Sep 23	Get It Right	A Great Misunderstanding
Sep 9	Second to None	More Careful Next Time
Sep 2	In the Bag	No Inside Man
Aug 19	Confession Ex Nihilo	A Spiritual Advantage
Aug 12	Confession 101	That Movie Script We Wrote
Aug 5	No Crown for Confession	The Field of Ego
Jul 29	Only Perfect People Allowed	Not in Their Right Mind
Jul 22	Strength to Repent	Chosen for Humility
Jul 15	Not a Waiting Power Outlet	Giving a Rip
Jul 8	The Bricklayer's Trowel	Copy and Paste Communion
Jul 1	Mud Pies in Our Pockets	A Meal of Triumph
Jun 24	MVPs at Confessing	Glorious Day
Jun 3		Initiated without Our Interest
May 27	Again I Will Say, Grumble
May 20	Telephone Poles	The Same God
May 13	Dispensable to Replaceable	If Only
May 6	Complaining Like Americans	Punching Entitlement in the Face
Apr 29	A Soft Heart Gathers No Plaque	A Meal to Soften Hearts
Apr 22	Quite Appalling	Communion and Provision
Apr 15easter	Exalting Dignity	The Path of Life Boasters Welcome
Apr 1palm sunday	THIQ Obedience	Not the One They Wanted
Mar 25	All of Us	The Author of Life
Mar 18	Out of Place	We Shouldn't Be Careless
Mar 11	Getting in Shape	Display Purposes Only
Mar 4	Training for Hypocrisy	What It's Good For
Feb 26	They Belong Together	Dust Sure Does Have Problems
Feb 19	Confession Songs	Better Than a Thousand Elsewhere
Feb 12		On Our Side
Feb 5	Two Strings to Tune	Too Close for Some
Jan 29	Glad to Forgive and Fellowship
Jan 22	We Call It Choice	In a Dining Hall
Jan 15	No Matter What They Were	More Like a Segregation
Jan 8	All the Way Down the Line	The Meat of the Meal
Jan 1	Corporate Confession	Too Much Life

2011
lord’s day	confession	communion
Dec 25christmas	Like We Do	Seasonal Sound Bites
Dec 18advent	Our Familiar Celebrations	Word and Sacrament
Dec 11	Hard to Take	Two Days with Jesus
Dec 4	Our Side of the Pendulum	A Gluten Free Option
Nov 27	Informing the Trinity	Our Particular Sins
Nov 20thanksgiving	Bullet Points Like Them	53 Times a Year
Nov 13	Negotiating Submission	Emblems of Both
Nov 6	He Gets What He Wants	Toppling by Table
Oct 30reformation	Unafraid of Light	Upsetting Continents
Oct 23	Pouting in the Corner	Our Life Meal
Oct 16	Welcomed Back	Sharing More Than Sentences
Oct 2	Confess Them All	Welcome to Watch
Sep 25	What Is a Ditch?	Real Love
Sep 11	Confessional Finger Pointing	Our Neighbor's Eating
Sep 4	Thankful for Conviction	Using Bad Words
Aug 21	Gloppy Gratitude One Sign of Being Born	Talking with Our Mouths Full Failing to Breathe
Aug 14	Ruined Appetites	The Right Banquet Hall
Jul 31	No Successful Cover-Ups	Not an After-Creation Thought
Jul 24	Attitudinal Sins	A Faith Increasing Ordinance
Jul 17	Attached to Strings
Jul 10	Good at What They Do	Soul-sucking Mastery
Jul 3	Press On
Jun 12	Wearing a Religious Hat
Jun 5	Those Who Do Nothing Wrong
May 29	Field Full of Boulders
May 22	Insulation Techniques	Right on Track
May 15	Portions of Grace	A Trinitarian Table
May 8	Not Just in December
May 1	Theology to Justify Rebellion
Apr 24easter	Sunday Followed Friday	Down the Hill of Grace
Apr 17	The Ones Everyone Else See	A Weekly Refrain
Apr 10	A Hole in the Boldness Tank No Less Wrath Deserving	The Other Gutter
Mar 27	Owning Our Offenses	No Small Substitute
Mar 20	Better Together
Mar 13	Practical Foolishness Address the Issue Not Forgiving Others
Feb 20	A Closet Full of Clothes	Better Than a Dead One
Feb 13	Dirt in the Carpet	The Party Ditch
Feb 6	Our Favorite Wool Sweater
Jan 30	How Collected We Are	The Gloomy Ordinance
Jan 16	Like a Compass Points North
Jan 9	Mud All Over the Place