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Scent plays an important role in our memories and the story of Scripture
If poetry elevates its subject, we could also say the reverse: the subject, in this case, the Most High God, elevates the language.
This is an excerpt from Faith in the Face of Tyranny: An Examination of the Bethel Confession Proposed by Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Hermann Sasse in August 1933, written by Torbjörn Johansson and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2023).
This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).
The laments of the Hebrews called upon the LORD God to remember His people who are suffering, be faithful and deliver them.
Today, Jesus comes as your Good Shepherd. You recognize His voice.
On every page, in every theme, in every major character and every major plot twist, we are invited to see God’s unfolding work to make all things new and whole in Jesus.
Through the often abominable and lamentable and occasional commendable season, there is one who remains unmoved by it all.
Every time the Scriptures are opened, we are repeating this scene. Every time the gospel is preached, we are replicating a moment wherein the faithless ones are greeted by their faithful Lord.
I am not a good Lutheran. I have only been around reformation theology for a few years.
When our sense of alienation from God is underscored and exaggerated by daily life we behave like tropical fish when their tank is cleaned.
If you don’t believe Jesus Christ—that is, God in the man born of the Virgin Mary—died for the sins of the world, then you can’t evangelize.