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Something to Remember This Election Year

You need not be especially political to feel anxiety in this moment. Unless you live in a cave, you are confronted by the rapacious onslaught of attack

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Justification: A Ground Level View

This Sunday we’ll consider the doctrine of justification. Our investigation begins in Sunday school, which tells the story of Luther’s Reformation (9:15am) followed by a sermon

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The SAFC Annual Banquet

Saturday evening is the annual South Asian Friendship Center banquet (SAFC) where I’ll preach a message titled “The Transfigured Life.” We’ll consider the question

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Pope Francis Visits Assisi: An Ongoing Stigmata

Pope Francis is making history today. He is visiting Assisi, the Italian town famously associated with his namesake, St. Francis. The purpose of the

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The Unfinished Reformation

Today marks the official release of The Unfinished Reformation, which I’ve had the privilege of coauthoring with Dr. Gregg Allison. It’s been a delight to work

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Martin Luther: Wrestler with God

Although Martin Luther (1483-1546) entered the world during the Renaissance, his early years in Mansfeld, Germany showed little evidence of cultural rebirth. Plagues, thieves,

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The Persuasive Power of God’s Word

I am currently reading one of the most enjoyable books I have read in years. It is titled Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk

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The Challenge of Ministry to Today’s Students (and what we should do about it)

  Every fall since 1998, Tom McBride and Ron Nief of Beloit College in Wisconsin have released their Mindset List to “look at the

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Today Is When Catholics Celebrate Mary’s Assumption: From Whence Did It Come?

Today is when the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the Assumption of Mary into heaven (August 15). While many of the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics

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The Authority of Christian Tradition: How Catholics and Protestants Disagree

In our new book, The Unfinished Reformation: What Unites and Divides Catholics and Protestants after 500 Years, Gregg Allison and I seek to explain

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Rescued from Death: A Poem

One of the great joys of pastoral ministry is discovering the diverse gifts of God’s people. Here is a fine example. After sharing the

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The Parody of Pokémon GO

To evaluate elements of popular culture from a theological or theoretical perspective sets you up to sound like a jerk.  It’s unavoidable. For example,

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Gospel Combustion

This Sunday we will conclude our Sermon on the Mount series at NCC by considering the bedrock on which we’re building our lives. It

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It Pleases Francis: The Exoneration of Martin Luther

On January 3, 1521, Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum pontificem (“It pleases the Roman Pontiff”) to excommunicate Martin Luther. This

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Faith and Politics Forum

Unless you have just awakened from a long summer’s nap, you recognize that we are in the midst of a most consequential (and ugly) election cycle

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A Focused Faith

Christians are called to throw off everything that hinders our wholehearted allegiance to Christ, including the accumulation of wealth.

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Chris Castaldo

Chris Castaldo is the Lead Pastor at New Covenant Church in Naperville, Illinois, and is a fellow at the Center for Pastor Theologians. Whether it’s through his writing, speaking, or his bi-weekly Vlog, "A Brief Word from Pastor Chris," he desires to see the gospel of Jesus Christ proclaimed and lives transformed for the glory of God.

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