Wade Johnston, Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis: MO, 2025.
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This ancient “tale of two mothers” concerns far more than theological semantics—it is the difference between a God who sends and a God who comes.
12/10/25
This story points us from our unlikely heroes to the even more unlikely, and joyous, good news that Jesus’ birth for us was just as unlikely and unexpected.
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02/20/23
Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
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02/16/23
His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
02/05/23
God has the power to take that which is small, that which is overlooked, that which is despised, and use it to create something wonderful.
02/01/23
Rightly distinguishing between law and gospel, as Paul helps us see in 2 Corinthians 3, is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
01/31/23
Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
01/29/23
I hope your people expect and even demand this of you. But how we proclaim the central message, that can (and probably should) vary.
01/20/23
Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
01/16/23
God gives us the power and authority to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to burdened sinners who entrust us with their pain, guilt, and defeat.
01/14/23
Though it may feel to us like the darkness is winning, God’s Word reveals the darkness is waning. The Light of the world has come.
01/11/23
Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
01/10/23
The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
01/07/23
When all the people had been baptized, when all the people had washed the filth of their sins into the water, Jesus went into the water to draw their sins unto Himself.
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