TOPIC INDEXGod (7)

  1. The Trinity and the Gospel

    book
    07/09/21
    13 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    What Luther is doing in his Catechism is teaching how the gospel is an action of the whole Trinity, not just one of the persons.

  2. Repentance According to the Scriptures: Acts 2:37–39

    book
    03/12/21
    8 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Repentance means being cut down by the law’s declaration of judgment. It’s not an activity we do to prepare for grace, but a point of despair worked by God himself.

  3. Luther at Marburg

    book
    10/02/20
    12 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Luther's signature insight on the sacraments was that God’s word of promise doesn’t just symbolize an absent reality but that it gives and bestows God’s real favor.

  4. Where All Men Are At Home

    book
    12/23/19
    11 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Christmas is, therefore, the beginning of Christ’s earthly ministry, even while he awaits a number of years to gather his disciples and inaugurate his preaching of the kingdom.

  5. Between Fear and Hatred: Two Kinds of Divine Hiddenness

    book
    11/25/19
    16 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    We might not appreciate that God chooses to save us by his word alone, but our discomfort doesn’t make the promise any less effective.

  6. Christ's Limitless Atonement

    book
    10/14/19
    12 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Terror and even hatred of God are the only things with which divine hiddenness can leave us.

  7. What Does this Mean: Union with Christ

    book
    10/07/19
    13 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Christ’s indwelling in the Christian must be tied relentlessly to these external and objective events of God’s own action.