Bondage of the Will (87)
  1. We would rather be God ourselves. But, being God is always beyond our grasp.
  2. This episode of the Thinking Fellows opens to the peasants revolt and the radical reform of Thomas Müntzer. To round out the show the Conversation moves to the Bondage of the Will and the begining of Luther’s family life.
  3. Advent is one big answer to the question of free will in matters of salvation. God is free. Our will is bound.
  4. This is the seventh installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 13, 14 and 15 by Caleb Keith.
  5. God preaches a concrete word to us in the present tense. We hear the Good News that Jesus is God’s mercy for us.
  6. The folly of sinful man attempting to bridge such an infinite gap to God Who is holy becomes obvious.
  7. So bondage meets freedom, and God becomes our Master through Christ.
  8. Desiderius Erasmus and many humanists had for a while held out hope for Luther’s call for reform and many of the reformers were themselves, to some degree, humanists.
  9. Just when we think we had it all under control, Christ breaks into the midst of our futile efforts to save ourselves.
  10. In The Fall of 2016, Dr. James Nestingen came on our show and talked about the Bondage of the Will.
  11. We’ve been desperate—and it is a gift of God when we are, when we realize our lost condition!
  12. In other words, they had too much religion and not enough Yahweh. Or, to put it in New Testament terms, they worked so hard at being religious that they put Jesus out of work.
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