Do not disregard Luther’s early disputations, but appreciate their specificity and recognize their pastoral and theological continuity with his later works.
05/08/26
The heavens are neither geocentric, nor even heliocentric, but Christocentric. It is the cross and the crucified and risen Jesus who has the whole world, and each of us, in his nail scarred hands.
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05/07/26
Humanity, despite our best efforts, cannot answer the question as to why God allows evil to occur.
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03/09/23
Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
02/27/23
When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
02/21/23
A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
02/14/23
Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
02/03/23
Predestination, Jim knew, is no longer a frightening doctrine of mystery when you understand that God makes his choice about you in the simple word of God, given from one sinner to another.
01/31/23
Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
01/27/23
I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
01/24/23
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). Now available for purchase.
01/17/23
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).
01/06/23
The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.
12/15/22
If Jesus shows up and you are a sinner, ‘tis more blessed to receive than to give
12/13/22
The lesson of Malachi reveals God’s love for his people. When the people ask for proof of God’s love, he reminds them of their election.
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