Law and Gospel (698)
  1. “That can’t be right”, I thought to myself as I flipped back and forth between two verses in my Bible.
  2. Wade and Peter sit down to complete their discussion on Wade’s presentation entitled Law & Gospel: A Lens for Life.
  3. Where contrition is evident, the conscience has already been prodded, piqued, finally terrified. More Law only serves to confirm the lie this person is already at risk of believing: that the last work of the conscience is also God’s last word. But God’s last word is the word of absolution, not the confirmation of the conscience’s testimony, but now its contradiction.
  4. In our own lives, we might find that the Law is not an alien word, whether we call it our conscience or our values, our Holy Writ, or our municipality’s laws and regulations
  5. Martin Luther knew something about economics. Well, God’s economics anyway.
  6. No matter what happens, whether failure, pain, or discouragement, Jesus says, “Come to me... and I will give you rest"
  7. On episode NINETY-SIX of Let the Bird Fly! Wade, Mike and Peter sit down to continue their discussion on Wade’s presentation entitled Law & Gospel: A Lens for Life
  8. Wade, Mike and Peter sit down to discuss a presentation Wade has been giving entitled Law & Gospel: A Lens for Life.
  9. This quest to justify my existence can end because I have been justified by God who gave up heaven to be with me!
  10. The danger was not necessarily inside the city. Nor was it from an obvious source. Outside the walls of Thyatira, lay a small shrine of white stone.
  11. God is used to working with colorful figures. One of the most colorful in the Bible is Balaam. Hailing from Mesopotamia, Balaam was what we might call a shaman or a soothsayer.
  12. Holding to Jesus’ teaching while denying His divinity presents a host of complications that make it difficult to take one and leave the other.
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