Post-Denominational Lutheranism
By John W. Hoyum
03/20/26
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Post-Denominational Lutheranism

One great thing about our post-denominational age is that it has opened up opportunities to make common cause with other Lutherans who, despite their differences and eccentricities, can agree on some of the most important things.
Getting Over your Pride
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
03/19/26

Getting Over your Pride

Pride builds identities that leave no room for grace.
Blessed Beggars
Heather Schulz
Heather Schulz
03/18/26

Blessed Beggars

We can willingly admit the fact that we're just like tax collectors and thieves.

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Tyler Cronkright
Tyler Cronkright
01/28/21

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

And because Jesus on the cross was sin in its entirety, God cannot look at him. He turns his face away, causing Jesus to cry out in utmost agony, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
John W. Hoyum
John W. Hoyum
01/19/21

What Happens When the Gospel Isn’t Threatened

Has the modern world taken too strong a dose of the gospel as its inheritance from the Reformation?
Sam P. Schuldheisz
Sam P. Schuldheisz
01/13/21

A Tale of Two Professors

This tale of two professors has a common theme, plot, and denouement - the good news of the one true story, Jesus Christ crucified for you.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
01/12/21

Conspiracy Theories, Law, and Salvation

Paul knew, and so do we: the law doesn’t change hearts or heal the world. More demands won’t do the trick.
Robert Kolb
Robert Kolb
01/10/21

He Doesn’t Make Things Like We’re Used To

God makes all things new. He refashions us from those turned in upon ourselves, turned to idols of our own choice and making, to experience the freedom He gives by pronouncing us His righteous children.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
01/10/21

Epistle: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (Epiphany 2: Series B)

What does being free from sin, which is obviously a good thing, have to do with being free from the Law, which sounds dangerous?
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
01/04/21

God's Unmasked Face

The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
12/29/20

Is Jesus the Only Way?

To the extent that God is exclusive by offering salvation only through Christ we can say he is more gracious than other systems because he takes on our guilt upon himself while gifting us his righteousness.
Kyle G. Jones
Kyle G. Jones
12/24/20

Waiting with Simeon

We’ve hung on every whisper of hope that this way of life would end and a new one would rise to take its place.
Pete Lange
Pete Lange
12/21/20

To Us a Child is Born: Prince of Peace

Christian peace is not the absence of problems, but it is the presence of God amid our pain and sorrows.
Valerie Thur
Valerie Thur
12/15/20

To Us a Child is Born: Everlasting Father

The well-meaning advice “time heals all wounds” is offensively false when we confront the overwhelming evidence that the constants in our lives are death, taxes, and suffering.
Sam Leanza Ortiz
Sam Leanza Ortiz
12/14/20

Surviving the Dark Night: St John of the Cross

St John of the Cross' feast day on December 14 commemorates the day of his death in 1591, at the height of the Catholic renewal movement that followed the Reformation.
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