Gerhard Forde

What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?

Forde’s work testifies to the liveliness and vitality of confessional Lutheranism, and its promise for the continuing need to preach Christ crucified in this, and every, age until the Lord’s return.

The following is an excerpt from “The Christian Life: Cross or Glory” written by Steven A. Hein (1517 Publishing, 2015).

Maybe for the first time you can begin to receive creation as a gift, a sheer gift from God’s hands. And who knows what might happen in the power of this grace? All possibilities are open.

There is no justification except by faith alone. The radical forgiveness itself puts the old to death and calls forth the new.