Law and Gospel Done
Christ is not an idea. He isn’t a concept. He isn’t a religious notion or sentiment. He isn’t a product. He is the Savior, flesh and blood.
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Wade Johnston
Wade Johnston has degrees from Martin Luther College, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Central Michigan University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He serves as Assistant Professor of Theology at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and served for ten years in parish ministry in Saginaw, Michigan. He one of the hosts of the 1517 Podcast, "Let the Bird Fly," and has authored several books including, "A Path Strewn with Sinners" and "An Uncompromising Gospel."
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A Hospitable God
Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
What We See in the Cross is Love
If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
God Has Swallowed Death, Whose Belly Christ Has Burst
Nothing stands against you. Only Christ stands now, and he is for you, more for you than you could ever know, for you like nothing else that has ever loved you.
Easter: The First Day of Eternal Life
Sometimes loss is gain. Sometimes defeat is victory. Sometimes weakness is strength. Sometimes death is life. Sometimes, that is, when Christ is at the center, on his cross and not in his tomb.
An Unintended Sermon
What grace is this? It’s grace from Christ, who often seizes us when we least expect it, even through the hands of His enemies.
The Book of Esther and the Name of God
God is often hidden in history, even as we make it now, but He is always manifest where He has promised to be.
The Veil of Moses and the Face of Christ
God is mercy. He was mercy then. He’s mercy now. God showed them His glory, if only a reflection, in the face of Moses.
The Most Shameful Thing I’ve Ever Done
God saves us through people. He saves us through means. He puts a voice on the gospel.
Test the Spirits
The language of faith speaks promise and persecution, hope and trial, victory and pain. The language of the world may well speak the former, but rarely the latter.
Rest Doesn't Come Cheap
Rest doesn’t come cheap. Perhaps there’s no scarcer commodity in our time. Plenty sell it, but there’s no warranty, and it seldom lasts.
Our Weekly Epiphany: Boring?
Here, robed in Word and Sacrament, is your King, infant though He be, come out of eternity into time to bring you out of time and into eternity.
Peace for Simeon, and Us
Our children are not our own, but even more, our children are born in need. They are sinful, from conception and from birth.
Jesus' Baptism
You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.
Circumcision of Our Lord
Christ has received the mark of law that we might be marked with the gospel, with the sign of his holy cross on our heads and hearts as redeemed children of God.
The Name of Jesus
While the world and other religions might be fine with considering him everything but, the foremost thing our Jesus came to be and still remains is Jesus, Savior.
Consider Jesus
Moses was sent to keep the house in order, but this Child is sent to bring the house home, and you are part of that house, the household of God.
The Lord Will Relent
The thought of losing even one of those for whom his Son died pains God beyond belief, and the angels rejoice when even one of his children repents.
The Days Are Coming
“The days are coming,” and God said it. God, who kept his promise that Christ would come at Christmas.
THE 105 Intro to Scripture – A003: The Teaching of Christ
Mike and Wade give an introduction to some of the teachings of Christ Mike's THE 105 course.
THE 105 Intro to Scripture – Audio 002: Life of Christ
Mike and Wade discuss the life of Christ, using select accounts from the Gospels to illustrate aspects of His person and work for Mike's THE 105 course.
THE 105 Intro to Scripture – Audio 001: Nativities and John the Baptizer
THE 105 Intro to Scripture – Audio 001: Nativities and John the Baptizer
PHI 202 Apologetics – Audio 001: Moral Argument
Mike and Wade discuss the moral argument.
THE 110 Intro to Theology – Audio 002: Second Article (Large Catechism)
Mike and Wade discuss the second article of the Apostles' Creed in light of Luther's Large Catechism.
PHI 201 Ethics – Audio 002: Two Kingdoms
Mike and Wade discuss the two kingdoms (or spheres, realms, etc.) and the Christian life as part of both church and state in light of the fourth chapter of Althaus' The Ethics of Martin Luther for Wade's PHI 201 course.