Trueman engages the question of “What is man?” and demonstrates how contemporary definitions of mankind result in the dehumanizing of our neighbor.
This is an excerpt from the third chapter of By Water and the Word: God’s Gift of Baptism for You by Brian Thomas (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 52-60.
Even when the bitter places sink down deep into our bones, the Restorer never relinquishes his grip on you.

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Divine election hacking happens with the proposal that God’s Word is irrelevant and powerless, weak and impotent.
True preaching arises when the Holy Spirit steeps the proclaimer in its own cycle of judgment and mercy.
Whatever loss you’ve undergone, whatever grief resides in the hollow of your heart, however much it seems like God has abandoned you, God sees that void as the place he wants to fill with new life and mercy.
The Confessions instead look forward and provide a critique of the world and of all my various religions and idolatries.