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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Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
12/19/19

In Memory of Katharina von Bora, Part 2

In some measure, if Luther had any success during his last two decades, it happened because of the woman who’d insisted on him as her bridegroom.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
12/13/19

In Memory of Katharina von Bora, Part 1

Her importance goes beyond simply managing the reformer’s household.
John W. Hoyum
John W. Hoyum
11/25/19

Between Fear and Hatred: Two Kinds of Divine Hiddenness

We might not appreciate that God chooses to save us by his word alone, but our discomfort doesn’t make the promise any less effective.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
11/21/19

Rescuing religion from culture: Friedrich E.D. Schleiermacher and the origins of Liberal Theology

If you want to boil Schleiermacher down to some foundation upon which to build up his theology, think feelings.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
11/20/19

God's Humility For You

Here is truly illustrated the truth that no one comes to Christ except the Father draw him; and with what power, what delicious sweetness, the Father allures!
Delwyn Campbell
Delwyn Campbell
11/18/19

Jesus' Harsh Words

Could it be that the root of not asking is not believing, either in the power, or worse, the graciousness of the Lord to address the issue that lies before us?
John T. Pless
John T. Pless
11/11/19

Preaching Hope: Theological Reflections on the Last Sundays of the Church Year

It is in the midst of a world marked by empty and deceptive hopes that have broken hearts and lives that we are sent to deliver the promise of a future that has as its last chapter the resurrection of the body to eternal life with the Lamb who was slain but is alive forevermore.
Philip Bartelt
Philip Bartelt
11/08/19

Grace and Lawlessness

Where Erasmus saw fear and collapse, Luther saw the never-ending comfort of Christ and his gospel.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
10/31/19

Reformation Day: Hey Beggar, You're Free!

When we hear freedom, we have to ask about its opposite, bondage.
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
10/31/19

Haunted

The devil knows our name and labels us by our sin. The devil breathes out death as he names us for what we are, sinners.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
10/31/19

Church Trash, Cotton Candy Spiritualism, and God's Ongoing Reformation

All major and minor reformations happen not because people react but because God acts. He reforms. He looks down from heaven, has mercy upon his starving children, and ends the famine of the Word by sending the rain of the Gospel.
Kyle G. Jones
Kyle G. Jones
10/28/19

On Freedom in Christ and the Parable of the Forgiving Father

Like the younger son, we can return to our Father every time our sinful hearts rebel against him. Like the older brother, we can complain and lament to our Father without fear of being destroyed.
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