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
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Getting Over your Pride

Pride builds identities that leave no room for grace.
Blessed Beggars
Heather Schulz
Heather Schulz
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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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Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
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The Habits of Grace

Only because He is an outsider can he afford the costly fee insiders could never afford no matter how hard they work.
Haroldo Camacho
Haroldo Camacho
09/12/18

The Unfair Judge

On the cross, God removed the load of every single one of your sins and placed it instead on Christ. Then, He clothed you with the fullness of His holiness and perfection.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
09/11/18

What Have You Done for God Lately? Too Much.

If I were the devil, I wouldn’t just entice believers to do bad things. We’re experts at that anyway.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
09/10/18

Theses 13-15: Freedom from Our Free Will

This is the seventh installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 13, 14 and 15 by Caleb Keith.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
09/08/18

Do I Even Matter in this World?

As every nail that Jesus hammered was a delight to his Father, so every email you send, every purchase you ring up, every table you wipe down, is a delight to the Father.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
09/04/18

Learning the Cycle of Gospel Proclamation

True preaching arises when the Holy Spirit steeps the proclaimer in its own cycle of judgment and mercy.
Bror Erickson
Bror Erickson
08/31/18

Theses: 11-12 Shameless

This is the sixth installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 11 and 12 by Caleb Keith.
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
08/30/18

Grace Twists Braids

I saw a beautiful picture of grace yesterday. A real bestowing of favor on someone less deserving.
Brandon Hanson
Brandon Hanson
08/29/18

Revelation 1:5b-8 | God's Calling, Our Response | 006

Last week we talked about what happens when the Triune God shows up, and how we practice this every week in Sunday worship with the Trinitarian invocation, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
Haroldo Camacho
Haroldo Camacho
08/28/18

The Black Sheep

I told him that God does not have two types of sheep. God does not have a fold of black, and another white. God only has a fold made up entirely of black sheep because He knows the truth about us.
Zack James Cole
Zack James Cole
08/27/18

Turnt

When I hear the word “repentance” my mind quickly goes to those old terror inducing Chick Tracts.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
08/27/18

Theses 9-10: The Dead, the Deadly and the Righteous

This is the fifth installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 9 and 10 by Caleb Keith.
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