More than a friend, Amsdorf was also an important figure in the work of religious reform, providing counsel to Luther on key occasions, shepherding the churches, and defending the faith until his death.
Just as it is necessary that Christ took on flesh for our salvation, so too, it is necessary that he should be in the supper bodily
Jesus doesn’t say, “I give you the way,” but “I am the way.”

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Repentance comes on account of suffering, loss, failure, and death. It happens when the promise of forgiveness of sin given in Jesus’ death is proclaimed to us down-and-outers.
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This is an excerpt from “A Lutheran Toolkit” written by Ken Sundet Jones (1517 Publishing, 2021), pgs. 23-25.
Paul knew, and so do we: the law doesn’t change hearts or heal the world. More demands won’t do the trick.
The setting for Luke 2 is the first century analog to my backyard. The stage is dressed with rust and decay, guilt and shame, sin and death.
God's Word is the final word on you, and his claim on you as his people, his children, is the ultimate claim.
On this day in the year 1093, Anselm was consecrated as the archbishop of Canterbury.
The parable of the wedding banquet in Matthew hinges on whether a guy is wearing the right costume for the party.
I will continue to cling to the only hope I’ve ever truly had: that Jesus is my Lord and yours.
In the quiet of your own uptown, where your own sins bear down on you and create a troubled conscience before the world, before others, and before God, your Lord reaches across the chasm of brokenness to take your hand.
The following is an excerpt from Ken Sundet Jones’ chapter in “Who Am I?” written by Scott Ashmon (1517 Publishing, 2020).
The kingdom I seek is the lower-case realm ruled over by the almighty upper-case Me.