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19 mins read|10/05/24This restoration to righteousness that results in our freedom for loving and supporting other people whom God places within our reach takes place, Luther believed, through Christ’s liberating victory over Satan.
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8 mins read|10/04/24They Call Me Rhetorical Working Man. In this episode, we discuss Luther‘s teaching on justification and vocation while reading James Nestingen’s essay on the same topic. We cover feudalism, the rise of capitalism, how the reformation took hold in the cities in Germany, the three estates, the two kingdoms, church life versus social life, and the consequences for Christians of not being grounded in faith and prayer as detailed by Luther, in particular, in his explanations to the petitions of the Lord Prayer.
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6 mins read|08/22/24After chatting a bit about the names of their houses, and life in general, Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin jump back in to the Heidelberg Disputation of 1518, and how it is such a great foundation for Biblical counseling.
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5 mins read|06/27/24Justification is famously called the article upon which the church stands or falls. It is the article upon which The Lutheran Reformation stood boldly and confessed the Scriptural truth that we are made right before God by grace through faith on account of Christ alone.
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6 mins read|06/06/24This week on Tough Texts, Scott and Dan explore Romans 5, a chapter that addresses the concept of original sin and its implications for humanity.
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11 mins read|05/14/24The gospel is for sinners – both the tax collector and Pharisee, both in need of the Great Physician.
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17 mins read|05/10/24The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.
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17 mins read|04/18/24The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
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12 mins read|04/12/24Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
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9 mins read|04/08/24Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
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14 mins read|03/26/24This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
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6 mins read|02/26/24He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
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