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.
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Getting Over your Pride

Pride builds identities that leave no room for grace.
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Blessed Beggars

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

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Something is Driving You

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Parents: We All Choose Our Child's Religion

Let’s stop pretending that we’ll wait for our children to grow up so they can choose their religion. Parents always choose their children’s religion. Without exception. It’s just that, in some cases, this religion operates under a different name.
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Lord Help Me Get One More

When you walk into church on Sunday, you may not notice, but there are wounded soldiers sitting in every single pew.
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Jesus > Moses

If Jesus is better than Moses, then everything changes. If Jesus is better than Moses, then the ultimate becomes the penultimate.
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Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:31-34 (Lent 5: Series B)

Jesus takes the sins of man upon Himself and carries them to the cross to make our hearts holy and acceptable in the eyes of God.
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The Fifth Petition: Forgive Us Our Debts as We Forgive Our Debtors

If we want to see evidence of our Father’s answer to the fifth petition, we need only to look at the cross and the empty tomb.
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Why Lent Offers us a Curious Kind of Joy

There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.
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Old Testament: Number 21:4-9 (Lent 4: Series B)

When we look upon the cross, we see our sin. We also see the One who washes it away and gives life.
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Thankful for the Joy of People

In schools and on barstools and in delis and where two or three gather, your Savior turns you loose to encounter those who are delightful and loveable.
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The Fourth Petition: Give Us this Day Our Daily Bread

Even though the horn of plenty on our table is there as the fruit of our labor, that is also a gift of God’s grace
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The God Who Speaks

God preserves language so he might continue to communicate his love and grace to us, and that we might communicate his love and grace to others.
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