1. Lutherans have a unique heritage that makes teaching predestination doubly difficult.
  2. This is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Your God is Too Glorious: Finding God in the Most Unexpected Places by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  3. Instead of a death sentence, those brothers hear the words of deliverance.
  4. I have to believe that grace - God’s grace - will be waiting on the other side.
  5. The cross not only stands as the measure of our hatred of God but also as the measure of God’s love for us.
  6. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of these early Lutheran hymns – and their physical availability in hymnals – in the piety of common people living in Lutheran towns and territories.
  7. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  8. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  9. A Christian story untethered from the reality of Christ and his mercy toward sinners becomes a mere fable, while a sermon disconnected from the hearts of its listeners remains a hollow oratory.
  10. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  11. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  12. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.