Auden understands Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith not as a mere theological platitude, a trick of biblical grammar, or a catchphrase for men to rally around.
Our Lord Jesus builds, forms, and fashions his church as an artist forms a mosaic.
Luther felt the reform of the church could not simply remain a matter of aesthetics and practice. Something much deeper needed to be rooted out.

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“The fear of the Lord” is our heart’s awakening to and recognition of God’s outrageous goodness.
Christians don’t need a bucket list. We’ve got the whole bucket: the Word fulfilled, life fulfilled, and life in full.
We now are the magi: we worship Christ because of who he is, but also because of what he has done for us and what he continues to do in his gift-giving to us.
Thanksgiving is never out of place for the Christian.
Below is the Thinking Fellows Essential Reading List with contributions from each of the Thinking Fellows hosts.
Symbols throw together a physical artifact we can see, hear, touch, taste, and/or smell, with a truth beyond the tangible.
To embrace our creatureliness is to affirm the truth that we were created to worship.
God does not give us an undebatable answer to suffering. Instead, God suffers, too.
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).
You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
Do our petitions move God?
Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!