Faith (498)
  1. Even if not a turning point, 1518 is a point of no return for Luther.
  2. The Son of God is still God the Son in the Incarnation.
  3. The way to salvation does not consist in works invented by men, but that which leads to God is believing and trusting in Him.
  4. Dr. Paulson continues working through Paul's use of Exodus in his letter to the Romans.
  5. It's easy to look at our faith through an emotional lens. Are you on an emotional high, or an emotional low? Are you on a mountaintop, or are things silent in the valley? What happens to your faith when you aren't "feeling it."
  6. Dr. Paulson continues to talk about trial by observing the different ways the story of Abraham has been taught.
  7. The grass withered for them too, but they held on to God’s Word. They knew that was eternal, so they lived in it. They lived in his forgiveness.
  8. Sow, Jesus seeds a parable and a pun, and lettuce understand. But when the corn grows, what ears hear and what ears don't?
  9. What God created, God will grow. We don’t add a few stitches onto his creation.
  10. The new life Christ opened for us in His justifying resurrection, the new life into which we were baptized is a life of faith.
  11. The Psalms aren’t the clandestine successes of a faithful soul, but are the journaled hopes of a desperate soul — of one teetering on the edge of oblivion.
  12. Faith is a living, bold trust in God’s grace, so certain of God’s favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
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