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Confession
2026
- Authority Troubles
- Prayer Guidance
- Anger Options
- Choked by a Shirt-Sleeve Cuff
- Keeping Your Kids Stupid
- Anchor of the Soul
- Across Columns
- Ridē Fidē
- Against Sowing Discord
- Drawe One Waye
- An Oar to the Head
- I've Got Your Back
- Christian Resistance
- Trials of Temptations
- A Nation That Worships
- Dad Profits
- Putting Our Week and Our Work on the Altar
- No Surrogate Surrender
- Chewing the Meat
- Turn, Turn, Turn
- Short Accounts for ME
- A Certain Vibe
- A Good Story to Tell
- Higher Up the Flagpole
- Neither Butt Kiss or Be a Butt
- Church Leaders
- Peace Indeed
- The Assembly's Amen
- Poured Out as a Drink Offering
- Rich in Mercy
- Not Being Someone's Scapegoat
- The Help of Jerks
- A THIQ Standard
- The Only Parenting Tip You Really Need
- Getting to the Bottom
- Frequent Targets
- When Evil Is Not Detached
- One Job
- Running Again
2025
- 2% Pride?
- Bored by This Baby?
- No Season for Stinginess
- Advent Impatience
- Revelation, Covenants, and Advent
- Gratitude Trees
- Institutional Pimples
- Hell Is a Real Horror
- Say Amen More
- Palace Pillars
- Pride Is a Mother
- World Stains
- Hygienic Violence
- Banking on AI Therapy
- So Many Like Cain
- Sopping Britches
- Before Confrontation
- Easy to Forget
- No. Wrong. Whatever.
- Annoying Humans
- More Manure
- Standing on Shoulders Standing on the Word
- Not All the Ones Doing the Verbs are the Nouns
- Blessed Breads
- Another Halfway
- Harm upon Harm
- Mini-Pharaohs
- It Doesn't Always Have to Be Hard
- Goldilocks-level
- You Have One Job
- Fight the Drift
- Choked by the World
- No Time at All
- Rotten in Denmark
- Baskets with Plastic Grass
- The Trouble with Losing
- Dribbling to the Left
- Are You Winning?
- Righteous Fruit
- Soul-Winning
- Pulling Your Train Off the Tracks
- The Run-for-Imperishable-Prize Life
- Is Good Not Good?
- Spousal Sanctification
- By the End of Today
- Aristotle's Knees
- Confessing the Truth
- Two Revolutions
- TEC at 14
- Fruitful Followers
2024
- For the Throat
- Dark Days
- Sinning by Sentiment
- The Limits of Swaddling Cloths
- The Wrong Avoidance Rules
- Soul Expansion
- Sustainability by Scripture
- It's Not All Paved Over
- Trusting in Dust
- Privileged Resistance
- Deceived into Dreadful Thinking
- Super Blessed
- Among the Sinners or the Stirred?
- The Worst Punctuation in ALL of English Literature
- Losing Your Roll
- A Capital S
- The Frame of Depravity
- Hate Works
- The Grace Wind Tunnel
- On Not Talking Back
- The Self-control Prayer
- Reasoning about Self-Control to Rulers
- Getting Worked Up
- Trashing the House
- Making - or Breaking - Households
- June Life Jubilee
- Self-Contradiction
- Farmers Believe It
- On Being Blameless
- Be Careful Little Thumbs
- Left to Our Own Devices
- The Habit of the Saved
- Second to None
- In the Bag
- Confession Ex Nihilo
- Confession 101
- How Long
- No More Pivotal Day
- Partially Right
- Not Layers of Paperwork
- The Anger Trap
- Advanced Level Indignation
- Killing Without Contact
- Anger by Another Name
- What It Really Means to Be Right
- Burning Desire
- Put Off Anger
- Get Them Out
- Unguarded Faith
- The Easiest Person to Fool
2023
- Giving Delight
- What Good Traditions Are For
- By the Plateful
- No Disordered-Contentment December
- Cute Covenant Couples
- A Brotherly Metaphor
- Not Our Own
- Not Trespassing on Sexual Passion and Parts
- Man's Chief Blessing
- Adorned in Holiness and Honor
- Intentional Distance
- Cute Is Not Enough
- Political Firsts
- Appearances vs. Actuals
- THIQ Obedience - the verses edition
- Thankful on Their Way
- Let There Be...
- Out of Place
- Not Even Named
- Not in This House
- Just Hit Like
- Delete the App*
- Rich in Mercy
- Food that Fixes
- Checked-Out Loves
- Jerks and Jealousy
- Favorite Infections
- Jealousable Moms
- Jealousable Salt
- Jealousable Adorning
- Impatient over Misery
- Pastoral Attention
- Buried Grudges
- Not Far Away
- A Cosmic Portfolio
- A Cardboard Mirror of Self-Flattery
- Not Bummed Out
- Tumors and Tedium
- Bloody Serious
- Casting Off
- Bad All Over
- Spiritual Nerves
- We'll Know How It Happened
- Not Going Back to Egypt
- Raising a Flag
- As a Man Scrolleth
2022
- Waiting for Perfection
- The Lex Talionis Gift List
- Advent Honesty
- Defeated Devil December
- Divine Love and Bad Choices
- Kill Covetousness
- Sin in the Body
- Mirror Image
- The Word of Protest
- Killing Anger
- No Mercy
- The Law as Revealed Will
- Wretched Isn't All
- As Easy as Confession
- Scoffers Don't Care
- Sin as Fire
- Discipline or Destruction
- Sundays as the Start for Strength
- Jumping on the Drums
- More Holy Glory
- Ordered Affections
- Even the Boring
- Affection Deficit
- A Working Reputation
- The Three Rs
- Rejoicing in Roe's Reversal
- Wherever You Go
- The Will of God and Buyer's Remorse
- Anywhere We Meet
- Trellis and Transplants
- A Jealousable Move
- The Golden Rule for Parents
- Like a Mother
- Are We There Yet?
- Unsupervised Kids
- An Awful Lot
- Candy and Christian Nationalism
- What's Good About Obedience
- Parents Picturing Parents
- Unilateral Forgiveness
- Upholding Love
- Girding Your Mental Loins
- The Shape of Our Life Together
- Mad Awesome
- The School of Fish Strategy
- What Did Bathsheba Think?
- Chunks of Rancid Meat
- Blind Spots Are Rarely Lovely
- The Pointy Side of the Anvil
- Puddleglum Is Not an Epithet
- See, Hate, and Leave
2021
- Blessed Bible Reading
- An Irritated Puddle of Retaliatory Goo
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Christmas
- Not a Puddle under the Pine Tree
- Free to Love Christmas
- Godliness and Gratitude
- Don't Stay Dry
- More Than a Covering
- Local Fruit
- Quicker Than Tomatoes
- The Great Pneuma
- Fleshly Esse
- Threat Is on the Table
- Wherever You Go
- No Shortage of Little Popes
- No More Nuh-uh
- Against a Painted Happiness
- Those Who Call on the Lord
- Not in the Now
- Law and Love
- Like a Lace Coat
- Two Moving Toward One
- Ready for Grace
- Nations Under God
- Hasten Up
- Mental Ladder-Climbing Over Others
- More Like Inflammation
- Radiance or Resentations
- The Greater Scandal
- A Desire for His Approval
- A Heart to Run
- Full Obedience
- Unbribable
- Live Not by Lice
- Hectic Fever
- Know, Reckon, Yield
- Hard Feelings
- Obviously Hated
- Assume It's You
- The Weight of Hell on His Shoulders
- More Than Not Smoking with the ER Doctors
- More Than Ramping Up Smack Talk
- Admonishment and Astonishment
- A Heavy Hand
- If an Idiot Falls in a Forest
- A Heart That Is True
- Individualism Groups
- Mere Accuracy
2020
- The Seven Spirits of Grumpiness
- The Umpire over Rogue Responses
- Guard Rail Posts Scotch Taped to the Road
- Holes Punched on Your Frequent Sadness Card
- Quotidian Coveting and Emotional Control
- Emotional Epilepsy
- The Heart of the Problem
- The Vanity of Man-Centered Vanity
- This Is Your Vote
- You’re Already Wet
- You Did Good
- Seeing Red
- An Important Idea-Shelf
- Good News and New Goods
- A Rusty Nail in the Foot Would Be Better
- Building Concerns
- Accusing the Brothers
- Get Blessed and Bold
- Important Elections
- That We May Lead Faithful Lives
- Sinful Exhortations
- Praying for Common Grace
- FoBIG
- An Edenic Divide
- A Climate of Repentance
- A Cosmic Ton of Truth
- Conspiracy Theories Like Pollen in the Windshield Crevices
- A Finger Down Their Throat
- The Fear of Man Takes a Knee
- The Wrong Sin
- Confession Is Not Futile
- Salvation So Free
- Rust on the Bottom of the Chair
- Post-Party Depression
- Perfect as the Enemy of Celebratory
- Better Than Fingernail Clippings
- Knitted Onsies and Latte Punch
- Wrapped Around the Rudder
- Just Say No
- Just the Generic
- What Are You Waiting For?
- Right On
- 62 Million Abortions and Counting
- Not Your Modern's Therapy
- Dirty Feet
- Get Wiser
2019
- Take On, Take Off
- A Condescending Lesson
- The Will of His Throne
- Identity Requires Faith
- Not a Hands Off God
- He Gives Gratitude-Power
- A Bad Identity
- Jesus Is King
- At Insane Levels
- Faithful Sons
- Maybe More Effective Than a Curse
- The Blessing of Being Lied About
- Walking among the Lampstands
- A Bellyaching Bucket
- Don't Forget That
- Repent of Defeatist Faith
- Conquering Worldliness
- The Apocalypse
- Give Me Understanding
- Partial Fide
- Garrulous Talk
- Witnessing Songs
- Ruining the Taste
- The Dad Hat
- Formerly Known as Selfish Fathead
- Justifiable Blessings
- I Like Job, but I Don’t Want to Be Like Job
- Where It Wafts
- To Be Clear about Hell
- Is It a Sin to Be Weak?
- A Small Snail Named Apollyon
- Not As I Will
- The Dungeon of Chronic Grievances
- Polluted Garments on the Easter Table
- Make Easter Great Again
- More Than You Know
- Get Out of the Puddle
- Confession 201
- How Easily We Forget
- They Don’t Need a Sticker
- Remove the Rust
- Not The Stages of Outrages
- Blessing-ficiaries
- Our Father Who Judges
- Perpetual Shortfall
- Calvinist Knees
2018
- Buried and Barricaded
- When We Have Problems
- Deserving a Different Christmas
- When You Can See More Cracks in Contentment
- No Discontent December
- Motivation Above
- Make It Perfect
- The Biggest Display at the Ministry Fair
- Eye Opening
- The Vocabulary of Repentance
- Because Others Refused
- Bolognology
- Sin into a Proper Noun
- Liberating Glory
- Too Thankful for the Right Things
- All His Commandments
- What You Tolerate
- Wise in His Own Worship
- Bow Down
- Appears to Meet the Specs
- Full Attention
- There Is Always Someone
- No Mercenaries of Thanks Ministry
- Chosen and Expressly Named
- Interconnecting Gears
- Belly Worship
- Self-Esteem Propaganda
- Truth-Tubes
- As Thin as the Wifi Signal
- The Bottom Line
- No Lifehacks for Obedience
- Proverbial Nose Bleeds
- Knots and Nooses
- A Candle Under Your Hoodie
- Believing Believers
- Blessed Forever
- Choices as Saints
- Cosmic and Concentrated
- Sex Is for Fruit
- Two Blesseds
- Most Likely to Be an Arbiter
- Left Without Discipline
- The Limits of Pretending Friends
- In the Orchard of Blessings
- He Invites Us In
- The Very First Blessing
- Forgiveness Equals Freedom
- Really Blessed
2017
- Keeping the Incarnation on the Front Burner
- A Season to Be Made More Sturdy
- The Spirit of AntiChristmas
- Twenty-Four Whole Days
- More Hope for Fools
- Against Raising Our Kids to Be Pornographers and Prostitutes
- Give Me a Break
- Your Neighbor’s Slop
- The “Institutes” Twice a Year
- Spiritual Adulting Is Hard
- It Feels Like Conflict
- A Moral Pebble in Your Shoe
- Kneeling on Sundays
- Bearing Their Gravitas
- Perspective Fail
- The Debt Immense
- Jealous of a Complainer
- Shape and Cadence
- Broccoli for Dinner
- Bleeding Forgivness
- What Is Earthly
- Wings to a Bird
- Serious Bible Studiers
- Freedom from Confusion Is a Gift
- Spiritual Shapeshifters
- Divine Smack Talk
- Pots Throwing Pieces
- Calvinist Excuses
- The Damp Bounty Paper Towel
- On Not Wandering Like a Verbal Amoeba
- A Bucket Worth of Behavior
- Behold Him Better
- On Not Sponsoring Stupidity
- On Not Being a YAC
- A Longer Prayer
- Their Website Address
- After the Final Amen
- The "Oh, no!" Conjunction
- Right Out of the Oven
- A Lot of Calvinistic Sun in the Sky
- Current Visibility
- Not to Make Us Stars
- Verbal Forklifts Not Required
- Open Up the Spigot
- Pater Noster
- Those Who Don't Pray
2016
- Songs Working Overtime
- A Time to Give, Apparently
- We Need the Wait Training
- Outside Our Comfort-Circles
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Christmas
- Not to High-Five Our Righteousness
- Lapping the Pace Car
- The Goodness of God’s Discipline
- The Taste of Truth
- It’s a Lie
- A Profanity Problem
- Internal Adornment That Shows
- Close to Home
- The Life Behind
- No Stand Ins
- Busts along the Wall
- Two Tables for Ten
- Flotsam and Jetsam
- Convicting Clarity
2015
- As the Year Turns
- No Good Drunk
- Grasping and Grabbing
- Wrapped with Ribbon
- Hiding Behind a Newspaper
- Gravy That Requires Forks and Knives
- Your Paper Is Too Small
- He Condemned the World
- The Blockheads of Earth
- Separate from the Sexual Fray
- Choose Your Own Epithet
- A Long Drive
- Running Dark
- Slipping the Hold
- The World as God
- Driven by Jealousy
- As Old as Dirt Made into Man
- Which One Looks the Most Shady
- Stiff-arming the Truth
- You've Got to Know When to Get Out of There
- The Gunk on Our Glasses
- Such a Bone Head
- Motivation for Obedience
- Running Out of Generations
- Paternity Tests
- Spilling the Beans onto Someone Else's Lap
- Passing Our Lusts Through Spell-Check
- It's a Big Estate
- Inching up the Triangle
- Indeed a Political Act
- An Act of Life
- How to Go Glutton-Free
- That Big Piece of Leftover Cheesecake
- Dinner and Devotions
- The Stamp of an Image-Bearer
- The Living and the Dead
- Not Running Over Pedestrians
- They Would Be Dead by Now
- Envy Kills
- What Fits?
- The Whole Row
- Shooting Whales in a Barrel
- Ongoing Application
- The Tyrant's Life
- An Airtight Case
- Hunt You Down
- Something Has to Be Done
2014
- Focus on Rejoicing
- Not Your Gift
- Lawless Laws
- Our Pile of Sin
- The Rounds Are Live
- Turn, Turn, Turn
- Thanksgrabbing
- Overlooking Glory
- The Fruit of the Womb
- Protecting Our Talk
- Three Nots
- I Am Not My Own
- Racing Back for More
- Prayer for Sanctification
- Loathsome Liturgy
- Say the Same Thing
- Comparing Kills
- Cracks in the Sidewalk
- Before It Gets Worse
- Near the Top of the Lists
- Saved from Righteousness
2013
- Trimming the Fat
- Passion and Patience
- The Sin of Seasonal Humbug
- Listening to Sad Songs
- Why Bother?
- Gratitude Divas
- Where Authority Belongs
- East and Not-East
- Fostering Awareness
- Surprised by Sin
- Catching the Right Bus
- We've Got a Long Way to Go
- A Confession Blessing
- Not About Heaven's Books
- Broken Pencils
- Centuries Long Confusion
- A Lot of Trouble
- Adorned with Bible Verses
- Struck Out Looking
- He Knows
- Obedience Is Rock
- We Don't Go Back to Dead
- Pinning Jealousy
- Who Told You That?
- Full of It
- Tightening the Screws
- A Pocketful of Pesos
- Half as Well
- Trickle up from Our Knees
- Not with Contempt
- Another Sort of Sight
- We Don't Have It
2012
- The Hardest Part
- Holding Out the Sharpie
- Lying Stands Out
- Practice Proves Parentage
- Take It to Heart
- Raking Face
- Our Last Names
- God Never Wants to Say No
- Guilty of All
- Ready to Run
- Joy That Cannot Be Lost
- Get It Right
- Second to None
- In the Bag
- Confession Ex Nihilo
- Confession 101
- No Crown for Confession
- Only Perfect People Allowed
- Strength to Repent
- Not a Waiting Power Outlet
- The Bricklayer's Trowel
- Mud Pies in Our Pockets
- MVPs at Confessing
- Again I Will Say, Grumble
- Telephone Poles
- Dispensable to Replaceable
- Complaining Like Americans
- A Soft Heart Gathers No Plaque
- Quite Appalling
- Exalting Dignity
- THIQ Obedience
- All of Us
- Out of Place
- Getting in Shape
- Training for Hypocrisy
- They Belong Together
- Confession Songs
- Two Strings to Tune
- Glad to Forgive and Fellowship
- We Call It Choice
- No Matter What They Were
- All the Way Down the Line
- Corporate Confession
2011
- Like We Do
- Our Familiar Celebrations
- Hard to Take
- Our Side of the Pendulum
- Informing the Trinity
- Bullet Points Like Them
- Negotiating Submission
- He Gets What He Wants
- Unafraid of Light
- Pouting in the Corner
- Welcomed Back
- Confess Them All
- What Is a Ditch?
- Confessional Finger Pointing
- Thankful for Conviction
- One Sign of Being Born
- Gloppy Gratitude
- Ruined Appetites
- No Successful Cover-Ups
- Attitudinal Sins
- Attached to Strings
- Good at What They Do
- Press On
- Wearing a Religious Hat
- Those Who Do Nothing Wrong
- Field Full of Boulders
- Insulation Techniques
- Portions of Grace
- Not Just in December
- Theology to Justify Rebellion
- Sunday Followed Friday
- The Ones Everyone Else See
- A Hole in the Boldness Tank
- No Less Wrath Deserving
- Owning Our Offenses
- Better Together
- Practical Foolishness
- Address the Issue
- Not Forgiving Others
- A Closet Full of Clothes
- Dirt in the Carpet
- Our Favorite Wool Sweater
- How Collected We Are
- Like a Compass Points North
- Mud All Over the Place