Author: Angelo Valle

A Song in the Darkness

January 20, 2025
Hymns are beautiful and powerful tools. Like any good tool, you need to know when to best apply them. The right tool can make a seemingly impossible job a task done with ease. Can the same be true about hymns? I’ve always been struck with the fact that hymns, like tools, can seem to help … More A Song in the Darkness

Too Old for Fairy Tales?

January 6, 2025
Do you know that some of the greatest theologians I know are shorter than 5 ft tall? I’m talking about children of course. The same lot that loves fairy tales and have endless supplies of hope seem to see the world better than most “big people”. C. S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia and … More Too Old for Fairy Tales?

Summoned to Sing

December 22, 2024
One of the things I enjoy most is music. I don’t think a day goes by where I am not listening to an old movie soundtrack or some familiar tune. I find myself instinctively humming it throughout the day. I love music, especially the Christmas classics that fill our every store. Perhaps many of you … More Summoned to Sing

Marks of Our Adoption

October 28, 2024
As Christians, we know that the past is full of many great thinkers and heroes. Our holy faith was not born last week but is from before the foundations of the earth (cf. Eph. 1:4). We should expect then to find godly counsel wisdom and instruction from brothers and sisters in the faith who have … More Marks of Our Adoption

The Love of the Father

October 7, 2024
One of the crucial elements of our holy Christian faith that can be forgotten is the role of God the Father in our salvation. The image of God as a furious tyrant who can never be satiated is often presented. It is true that God’s wrath is real, and that His fury will be displayed … More The Love of the Father

I Identify as “Slave”

September 9, 2024
In the sixth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans we learn about the glory of the Christian’s union with Christ. We learn from this text that this union is a holy union. Because every Christian believer is united to the Lord Jesus by faith, they are made holy. There is a definitive status change … More I Identify as “Slave”

Life, Holiness, and Sin

September 2, 2024
Too often people want to limit the message of the Gospel to a simple story about the forgiveness of sins and our future forever in heaven. The Bible certainly teaches these very things, but as it turns out, after becoming a Christian you are still here. You didn’t get sucked up into heaven. It would … More Life, Holiness, and Sin

A Tale of Two Adams

August 31, 2024
Have you ever found yourself asking “What’s wrong with people?” We can ask this question at the office. We consider it through our stores. Maybe we even consider it with our own families. “What’s wrong with people?” is not a question which was birthed in our lifetimes. There have been horrible, wicked, acts since the … More A Tale of Two Adams

What Good is a Tree?

July 29, 2024
The Christian church is an assembly gathered under the cross of Christ. We find that the most fundamental element of our faith is that “our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” was nailed to the cross (Titus 2:13). But what did this historical event accomplish. We want to not only ask, what happened, but what … More What Good is a Tree?