1. Word and Water: A Baptism Conversation with FLAME

    book
    06/20/22
    16 mins
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    By Sarah Crowder
    FLAME uses Scripture and church history to argue that baptism is a gospel gift, not our work.
    Word and Water: A Baptism Conversation with FLAME

  2. A Q&A for "A Shepherd's Letter"

    book
    04/19/22
    18 mins
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    By 1517 Publishing
    History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
    A Q&A for

  3. The End of Ethics

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    04/04/22
    9 mins
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    By John W. Hoyum
    False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.
    The End of Ethics

  4. The Coronation of Edward VI

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    03/16/22
    8 mins
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    By Sarah Crowder
    Edward's goal of teaching his people to know the scriptures and to believe that their salvation depended on Christ is also essential for us today.
    The Coronation of Edward VI

  5. 500th Anniversary: Luther’s Invocavit Sermons (Part 2)

    book
    03/09/22
    15 mins
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    By Ken Sundet Jones
    Confession is not another ecclesiastical bludgeon but is instead a gift. There we can tell the truth about ourselves, knowing that Christ has only mercy for us in response.
    500th Anniversary: Luther’s Invocavit Sermons (Part 2)

  6. 500th Anniversary: Luther’s Invocavit Sermons (Part 1)

    book
    03/08/22
    11 mins
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    By Ken Sundet Jones
    Luther had a living Word from God intended to land squarely among sinners.
    500th Anniversary: Luther’s Invocavit Sermons (Part 1)

  7. Remembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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    02/04/22
    13 mins
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    By John W. Hoyum
    An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.
    Remembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  8. Thomas Aquinas: The Doctor of the Church

    book
    01/28/22
    11 mins
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    By Ken Sundet Jones
    Aquinas would craft a systematic theology that did with the matter of faith what Aristotle had done with the natural world.
    Thomas Aquinas: The Doctor of the Church

  9. The Anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism

    book
    01/19/22
    9 mins
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    By Philip Bartelt
    Not only does Scripture command us to maintain purity of doctrine and practice, it also commands us to reconcile with our brother, to seek to end division, and recognize common ground where there is common ground.
    The Anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism

  10. On Demystifying the Church

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    11/13/21
    12 mins
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    By Kelsi Klembara
    The church is the only place God promises to lift us out of ourselves not in order to become more like God but so that we may finally be freed from our obsession with becoming little gods.
    On Demystifying the Church

  11. Persecution and Unity: The Edict of Fontainebleau

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    10/22/21
    15 mins
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    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Throughout the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Lutherans would work together on the mission field, at home, and abroad.
    Persecution and Unity: The Edict of Fontainebleau

  12. A Confessional Church or a Confessing Church?

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    09/01/21
    11 mins
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    By Tyler Cronkright
    We do not live in the greatness of our own deeds. We boast in the greatness of one deed that God himself has done through Jesus Christ on the cross.
    A Confessional Church or a Confessing Church?
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